Pentera Blog: Pentesting, Red Teaming & Security

Attack Simulation vs. Ethical Hacking: A Critical Look

Amitai Ratzon

25 May 2020

Security teams are under pressure to prove resilience, not just predict it. While attack simulation has value, automated penetration testing delivers deeper validation by safely emulating real attacker behavior across the environment.

Cyber Hygiene Best Practices for Remote Work

Aviv Cohen

03 May 2020

As employees connect from unmanaged home networks, traditional perimeter defenses are no longer enough. Continuous security validation helps organizations identify the gaps created by remote access, misconfigurations, weak credentials, and endpoint risk before attackers do.

Remote Penetration Testing: How It Works & Why It Matters

Aviv Cohen

24 Mar 2020

Remote penetration testing is redefining how organizations validate security in distributed environments, replacing location-bound assessments with scalable, continuous testing. By combining the flexibility of remote delivery with the depth of automated attack emulation, security teams can uncover real exploitable risk faster and more consistently.

Securing Credential Chain of Custody

Pentera Team

13 Jan 2020

Privileged credentials are often the weakest link in security validation, especially when manual penetration testing breaks the chain of custody. By combining automated pentesting with secure credential management, organizations can continuously validate risk without exposing sensitive access or introducing new vulnerabilities.

Insights on the Future of Automated Pentesting

Amitai Ratzon

21 Nov 2019

Pentera’s growth story shows that cybersecurity innovation scales best when product-market fit, customer value, and disciplined execution come before fundraising momentum. By focusing on continuous risk validation and staying deeply aligned with customer needs, the company turned early conviction into lasting market traction.

Development of the First Automated Pentesting Platform

Pentera Team

18 Nov 2019

Pentera’s product evolution reflects a clear shift in cybersecurity from assumptions to continuous, automated validation. By building around real attack emulation, safety, and proven exploitable findings, the company helped redefine how enterprises measure security effectiveness at scale.

Enhancing Enterprise Risk Management with Automated Testing

Pentera Team

23 Oct 2019

Automated penetration testing gives Enterprise Risk Management a more practical way to validate whether security controls actually reduce business risk. By proving exploitable weaknesses, prioritizing remediation, and supporting continuous testing, it helps organizations translate cybersecurity activity into measurable risk reduction.

Ethical Hacking Lessons: Insights from 60 Enterprise Companies

Arik Liberzon

28 May 2019

Pentera’s findings across 60 enterprise organizations show that cyber resilience often breaks down not at the perimeter, but in privilege misuse, misconfigurations, and overlooked internal weaknesses. Continuous penetration testing helps security teams think like attackers, validate real exposure, and focus remediation on the vulnerabilities that truly matter.

Moving Beyond Traditional Vulnerability Management

Arik Liberzon

15 Jan 2019

Vulnerability management remains essential, but static scanning alone cannot show which weaknesses are truly exploitable or business-critical. Automated penetration testing closes that gap by validating real attack paths, helping security teams prioritize remediation based on breachability rather than volume.

How Automated Pentesting Mimics Hacker Techniques

Aviv Cohen

11 Dec 2018

Cyber defense remains dangerously imbalanced when attackers operate at machine speed while validation is still performed manually and infrequently. Automated penetration testing helps close that gap by continuously challenging defenses with real attacker techniques and making security validation scalable.

Mitigating the EternalBlue Vulnerability

Pentera Team

11 Dec 2018

Even years after major vulnerabilities like MS17-010 were patched, many organizations remain exposed due to incomplete remediation and lack of validation. Continuous penetration testing helps security teams prove that fixes were actually implemented and that one missed system does not become the starting point for a larger breach.

A worldwide cyber warfare

Aviv Cohen

06 Dec 2018

As global cyber conflict grows more complex, enterprises cannot rely on static defenses or occasional reviews to stay resilient. Continuous, automated security validation helps CISOs measure real exposure daily and focus resources on the vulnerabilities that matter most.