Analysis and recommendations for standardization in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment Penetration testing market survey
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Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing
In this modern world, all of the persons are using the facility of internet. SECURITY is one of the major issue of the internet. Everyday highly skilled hackers breach the security and take the advantage of vulnerabilities to access the confidential data. To overcome this problem one solution was suggested named Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT). Vulnerability Assessment i...
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