Vulnerability assessments and penetration tests are the most common techniques to uncover and fix cybersecurity flaws within your technologies. While some similarities exist between the two, they are often misinterpreted as the same thing although they yield very different degrees of analysis. Vulnerability scanners are generally used by IT staff in order to check network infrastructures for known vulnerabilities that may have been introduced during their implementation. Penetration tests, by contrast, identifies both well-documented vulnerabilities, as well as those that have never been seen before, while providing evidence of their potential impact on your company. Learn more about the main differences between vulnerability assessments and pentests →