penetration testing

12 November 2018 at 11:49am
At last week's Jisc Security Conference I presented a talk on how we've assessed a couple of Jisc services (our Security Operations Centre and Penetration Testing Service) from a data protection perspective. The results have reassured us that these services create benefits rather than risks for Jisc, its customers and members, and users of the Janet network. This post links together:
12 September 2018 at 8:06am
In developing our Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Janet Security Operations Centre we noted that our Penetration Testing service could involve high risks, but didn't really fit the DPIA framework.
Anonymous
PB/INFO/082 (11/04) Many organisations are looking to have some form of penetration testing performed on their systems. This may simply be to evaluate existing security measures and to find gaps where security needs improvement, but increasingly it is performed to comply with security standards when connecting to public sector networks or processing payment details.
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