What is VAPT?
The Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) is a formal security practice that allows organizations to identify, examine, and rectify vulnerabilities in systems, applications, networks, and clouds. It is a combination of two key approaches that are complementary to one another to give a full picture of the security posture:
Vulnerability Assessment (VA): An automated process of vulnerability testing and the identification of vulnerabilities, such as a misconfigured system, outdated patches, unsafe APIs, or inadequate access controls. It brings to the fore what vulnerabilities there are and their severity. Penetration Testing (PT): To simulate actual cyberattacks in the real world, ethical hackers are actively trying to exploit detected vulnerabilities. It provides the answers to the question of how those weaknesses can be weaponized and what business consequences they can have.A combination of the two provides a more realistic measure of organizational cyber resilience through VAPT testing, which provides more than just surface-level detection and actual exploitability.
