Pentesting 101

As we all know, penetration testing follows a standard. There are various standards, such as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), the Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF), and so on. Most of them follow the same methodology, but the phases have been named differently. We will take a look at each of them in the following sections and cover the Penetration Testing Execution Standards (PTES) in detail.