Friendly fire: how penetration testing can reduce your risk

Abstract

To get an accurate idea of how secure your systems are, you need to put them to the test. Yet even though penetration testing is a long-established means of doing this and is even mandated in many industry sectors, it remains severely underused. In this interview, Dave Adamson, head of technology at EACS, explains some of the reasons for this and how organisations could exploit testing to reduce their risk.