Penetration Testing and Types

Hello All, Welcome Again Today we discuss an intro to Penetration Testing and its four common types.

First of all we need to know what is Penetration. Penetration in simple terms means to intrude into some Network, Computer, Database or some other way of accessing the data and use it for some personal interests. We already know about Hackers (Black hat & White Hat). Penetration testers are  those expert people which are paid to detect vulnerability in our Systems or to detect loopholes which could be dangerous for the company. Loopholes may be in security settings, Password Settings, Network Operating Systems and many more like Programming flaws. So Penetration Testers are there to do there job.

Types of Penetration Testing:-

There are basically four types of Penetration Testing (On Basis Of Target) which are as follows:-

1.Network

2.Host Attacking
3.Application
4.Database

Network:-
This type of Penetration Testing include Password Detection, Attacking Switches and Routers, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Information about Virtual Private Networks and Storage systems.

Host:-
It means to detect gaps and loopholes in Operating Systems, Servers, Server OS .

Application:-
This includes detection of flaws in Web Application, Source Code Auditing and Binary Auditing.

Database:-
It include two phases or steps. They are Database Security and Social Engineering.