March 13, 2024 at 12:45PM
Annual pen test vendor rotation seeks to maintain a fresh perspective on security. While it can uncover missed vulnerabilities and foster healthy competition, drawbacks include lack of consistency and high resource consumption. Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) offers a sustainable alternative, providing continuous monitoring and insights while streamlining vendor management. Outpost24’s PTaaS solution, SWAT, delivers manual testing, consistency, agility, real-time insights, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, revolutionizing application security.
Key Takeaways:
1. Pen test vendor rotation, though not a regulatory requirement, is a best practice that aims to provide fresh perspectives, diverse techniques, benchmarking, and healthy competition among vendors.
2. Drawbacks of regularly rotating pen test vendors include lack of consistency, learning curve, internal time and resource use, and additional financial costs.
3. Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) presents a sustainable alternative by offering consistent methodologies, real-time insights, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
4. Outpost24’s PTaaS solution, SWAT, delivers continuous monitoring of web applications, utilizing manual testing, consistency, alignment with Agile and DevOps, real-time insights, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
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