Market and Markets predicts the application penetration testing market will grow to $1.7 billion by 2021. Application penetration tests are how latent vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, remote code execution, and poor authentication are identified and hopefully sent for remediation. But how do organizations know they are getting the full benefit from such assessments? An application penetration test metrics can be used to measure the effectiveness of application penetration tests on security programs and third-party pen test engagements, says expert Caroline Wong.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3184896/what-makes-a-good-application-pen-test-metrics.html