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As we are getting more reliant on various applications to make our life easier, our attack surface is growing. In this article we explain black box, white box and grey box penetration testing.

The first version of the PCI DSS standard was released in 2004 for laying down the minimum security requirements when it comes to handling and managing customer's card information. Over the years, different versions have been introduced, and at present, version 3.2.1 is the latest version released in May 2018.

While conducting a network penetration testing activity, the primary goal of the network penetration testers is to identify vulnerabilities which can be exploited by the attackers in an organization's network devices such as routers, switches, systems, hosts, etc.

Penetration tests (Pen test) can evaluate both the strengths as well as weaknesses of either a single computer system or an entire organizational network of devices.There are three methodologies used in penetration testing: black box, white box, and grey box testing.

Last year, there have been many AWS breaches exposing various types of vulnerabilities including leaking S3 buckets, compromised AWS environments and misconfigurations. Now more and more organizations are moving to the cloud and adapting modern technologies into their development operation.

Penetration testing as a service is offered in many forms such as web application penetration testing, application penetration testing, network penetration testing, cloud penetration testing, IoT penetration testing, etc. Moreover, with organization's development strategy shifting towards CI/CD environments, penetration tests need to be conducted at DevOps speed.