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A penetration test, commonly known as a pen test, is an authorised and co-ordinated simulated attack on an organisation’s network and infrastructure. Penetration tests involve experienced security consultants actively attempting to penetrate and exploit your organisation’s assets. We discuss what the main reasons are organisations conduct a penetration test.

Most companies are aware that monitoring cloud and physical-location IT infrastructure are important to flag potential cyber-attacks and prevent them. We discussed why SOC security is important and how to go about owning your own internal SOC.

We discuss taking the ethos of ‘secure by design’ and applying it to an entire business. We use our own business as an example.

We discuss phishing in the IT world. We talk about what it is, what the various types of phishing are, and discuss a very real-world example.