I would like to draw a simple analogy between professional soldiers and professional penetration testers. I find a lot in common between them and I believe that this exercise may help some members of the audience to clarify their understandings regarding our industry. [...]
If you read the Wikipedia’s definition of Tiger Team you get the following: A tiger team is a specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization’s ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization’s internal and external security. And further down we have In the computer security field, the term is now obsolete, and more common terms are penetration testers or security testers. [...]



