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Why Penetration Test?

Subject: Why Penetration Test?
Date: 2 Jun 2005 06:29:34 -0000
I was wondering the usefulness of a penetration testing against vulnerability 
assessment for a company. 

Scenario A
Cosultant "A  is employed to perform a vulnerability assessment and the result 
is tabulated based on the business risk these vulnerabilities pose.

Scenario B
Cosultant "B is employed to perform a Penetration Test, discovers 10 
vulnerabilities and is able to show exploit of 5 vulnerabilities.

Scenario C
Cosultant "C" is employed to perform a Penetration Test, discovers 10 
vulnerabilities and is able to show exploit of 7 vulnerabilities.

Which scenario would have more usefulness to the company? it is ovbious that 
the result of a PT would depend and vary from skill of a consultant to another? 

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