A major challenge for developing modern applications is ensuring their security. Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) is a cloud-enabled approach that lets you proactively find and fix application vulnerabilities and protect your digital assets. A key step to using a PTaaS solution is selecting the right testing environments. This guide will help you understand the pros and cons of different testing environments, and decide which is best for your organization.

Using our own proprietary External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solution, Outpost24’s Sweepatic, we have conducted an attack surface analysis on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games online infrastructure. The Paris 2024 cybersecurity team have done plenty right, but we’ve also highlighted some real-life attack surface risks that have slipped through the gaps (and do so for many organizations) including open ports, SSL misconfigurations, cookie consent violations, and domain squatting.