From the course: Dynamic Application Security Testing
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From the course: Dynamic Application Security Testing
Avoiding production impacts
- [Jared] Penetration testing involves testing the effectiveness of controls in a production environment. As the tester, it's your responsibility to know how to conduct these tests in a manner that avoids negatively impacting that environment. The last thing you want to happen during your penetration test is to cause a problem in production. Whether that's a noticeable slowdown, a corrupted database, or crashing the entire app, you can end up doing more harm than good. You can end up causing some of the very same problems your penetration test was designed to prevent. And if you've worked in security for any length of time you probably already know that it's an uphill battle. If you break a production app during a pen test, you're going to have a very hard time living that down. And I'm speaking from firsthand experience here. In one of my enterprise roles I hired a third party to conduct a web application penetration…
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