HOW PENTESTING MIRRORS THE EVOLUTION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

A post in which Ross Haleliuk, best-selling author of the recently released Cyber for Builders, draws parallels between the development of the quality assurance industry and penetration testing. Haleliuk observes that both QA and pentesting followed a similar trajectory, going from companies not doing them at all before outsourcing the functions, and then finally bringing them back in-house. He predicts that just as software development and testing have become linked, securing and testing software security will become the standard.