Evaluation and Taxonomy of Penetration Testing

The dependence of organizations on networks/Internet for efficient operations and services to customers has made the network security issues a vital one. In the present paper penetration testing manners and technologies are first surveyed and then analyzed in the real world context. Penetration testing has been performed mid/large cooperate organization pointing to certain conflicts in the requirements of testing. The paper also discusses about the processes and methodologies of today’s trends that also undergo continuous changes due to rapid technological developments. Some complications in penetration testing have also been highlighted and requirements for adopting the technique in modified way have been discussed. The paper further describes different phases of penetration testing techniques and we have also purposed a new methodology that is able to resolve the shortcoming of existing one. Penetration testing has been performed mid/large cooperate organization pointing to certain conflicts in the requirements of testing. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15084