Guidance focused on real-world security challenges and proven solutions — written by the consultants doing the testing.
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A balanced, technically grounded comparison of AI-assisted and human-led penetration testing: what each does well, where AI fails, what CREST expects, and how to evaluate an AI-enabled testing provider.
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Pentesys has signed the CREST AI Charter, reinforcing our commitment to the responsible, transparent and professionally governed use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity.
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An impartial buyer's guide to modern Penetration Testing as a Service platforms, comparing human testing models, portals, continuous testing, integrations and UK delivery.
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IDOR flaws rarely show up in scanner output. How testers find broken object-level access control, and what actually fixes it in code.
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Reflected, stored and DOM-based XSS explained, with the output encoding, CSP and testing steps that keep it out of production.
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Parameterised queries stop most SQL injection. Where they get missed, how testers find what is left, and how to verify the fix holds.
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What each OWASP Top 10 category means in practice, which ones testers find most often, and how to design them out.
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The vulnerability classes that keep turning up in web application tests, why scanners miss the important ones, and what to prioritise.
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A successful security assessment doesn’t end when you receive a list of vulnerabilities; it concludes only when those risks are demonstrably closed….
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How findings get validated before they reach your team, why false positives cause friction with developers, and what to ask your tester.
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Severity ratings alone will not order your remediation queue. How to weigh exploitability, exposure and business impact after a test.
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What a remediation plan needs to contain, how to assign owners and deadlines, and how to track findings through to verified closure.
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