This blog is for anyone who is interested in finding a good penetration testing company.

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Novee provides continuous AI-driven penetration testing to uncover and address novel vulnerabilities.

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Discover the differences between red teaming and penetration testing. Learn when to use each approach and how they strengthen your security posture.

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In my journey to explore how I can use artificial intelligence to assist in penetration testing, I experimented with a security-focused chat bot created by Jason Haddix called Arcanum Cyber Security Bot (available on https://chatgpt.com/gpts). Jason engineered this bot to leverage up-to-date technical information related to application security and penetration testing.

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A common use case for LLMs is rapid software development. One of the first ways I used AI in my penetration testing methodology was for payload generation.

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Burpference is a Burp Suite plugin that takes requests and responses to and from in-scope web applications and sends them off to an LLM for inference. In the context of artificial intelligence, inference is taking a trained model, providing it with new information, and asking it to analyze this new information based on its training.

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This webcast originally aired on February 27, 2025. Join us for a very special free one-hour Black Hills Information Security webcast with Corey Ham & Kelli Tarala on why your […]

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In this video, John Strand discusses the complexities and challenges of penetration testing, emphasizing that it goes beyond just finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

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In this video, Kent Ickler and Jordan Drysdale discuss Attack Tactics 9: Shadow Credentials for Primaries, focusing on a specific technique used in penetration testing services at Black Hills Information Security

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In this video, experts delve into the intricacies of desktop application penetration testing methodologies.

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In today’s world, security is more important than ever. As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive business, digital threats are becoming more sophisticated, varied, and difficult to defend against. […]

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By Ray Van Hoose, Wade Wells, and Edna Jonsson || Guest Authors This post is comprised of 3 articles that were originally published in the second edition of the InfoSec […]

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Tom Smith // At Black Hills Information Security (BHIS), we deal with all manner of clients, public and private. Until a month or two ago, though, we’d never dealt with […]

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Jeff Barbi // *Guest Post Background Unless you’re pentesting mobile apps consistently, it’s easy for your methodologies to fall out of date. Each new version of Android brings with it […]

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John Strand // Yet again it is time for another edition of Sacred Cash Cow Tipping! Or, “Why do these endpoint security bypass techniques still work? Why?” The goal of […]

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Jordan Drysdale// Physical Pentest Upcoming? Bring a Badgy. While badge reproduction may not be the intended use of this product, if you are a physical tester and you don’t own […]

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Brian Fehrman // Privilege escalation is a common goal for threat actors after they have compromised a system. Having elevated permissions can allow for tasks such as: extracting local password-hashes, […]

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Joff Thyer // If you have been penetration testing a while, you likely have ended up in a Red Team situation or will be engaged in it soon enough. From […]

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Carrie Roberts* // Can you think of a reason why you might want to put a lengthy comment into the properties of an MS Office document? If you can, then […]

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Lee Kagan* // Deploying an offensive infrastructure for red teams and penetration tests can be repetitive and complicated. One of my roles on our team is to build-out and maintain […]

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