Police: Pen tests could thwart 90 percent of breaches

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Police: Pen tests could thwart 90 percent of breaches
Some 90 percent of data breaches investigated by the NSW Police's fraud squad could have been avoided if organisations conducted penetration tests, according to a senior official at the cybercrime fighting unit. Detective superintendent Bruce van der Graaf said the tests would detect holes in IT ...

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