Question

What is the difference between vulnerability assessment and penetration testing in CyberSecurity?

Answer 1

• The terms Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing are both different, but serve an essential function of protecting network environment.
• Vulnerability Assessment: It’s a process to define, detect, and prioritize the vulnerabilities in computer systems, network infrastructure, applications, etc., and gives the organization with the required information to fix the flaws. 
• Penetration Testing: It is also called as pen testing or ethical hacking. It’s a process of testing a network, system, application, etc.to identify vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. In the context of web application security, it is most widely used to augment a web application firewall (WAF).