This year continues to be one of great milestones for Pentest People as we’ve been named as one of Britain’s fastest-growing private companies by The Sunday Times 100, ranking 87. The inclusion recognises our significant achievements during a challenging time for businesses in the UK. Our ranking reflects the had work the team has put to get the company where it is today to achieve annual sales growth of 55.42% over three years, to £7.2m.

Cloud testing is the process of validating applications, services, and databases that are hosted on cloud platforms. It involves verifying configurations, scalability, workloads, security controls, etc., to ensure that they perform as expected under different conditions. Cloud testing also provides a platform for performance testing and load testing before and during production in order to monitor any changes made to the system.

Last week the British Airways, Boots and the BBC all suffered cyber attacks of varying levels. The three businesses have been hit with an ultimatum to begin ransom negotiations from a cybercrime group after employees personal data was stolen in a hacking attack. It emerged on Wednesday the gang behind a piece of ransomware known as Clop had posted it onto their dark net site.

Cloud security is the practice of protecting data, applications, and infrastructure that reside on cloud computing platforms. This includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and other public and private cloud services. It involves implementing security protocols such as encryption, authentication methods, firewalls and access control to help protect the data and applications that are hosted on cloud servers.

‍Web applications are the backbone of any online presence. They allow companies to reach customers, communicate with them, and even store sensitive data. Unfortunately, this also means that web applications can be targeted by attackers who want to exploit weaknesses in their security measures.