Re: IT Audit vs Pen-Test

[JiPi DiNi <jipidini () gmail com>]

Audit equals collecting evidences while performing the evaluations of
some controls (ie PCI-DSS)
Pentest equals breaking into your systems to assess the attack vectors
and their feasability. (ie. breaking into your web servers.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_audit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test


Thanks,
JiPi DiNi



On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:26 AM, cribbar <crib.bar () hotmail co uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Excuse my ignorance, but what is the difference between an IT Audit and a
> Pen-test? Say if the scope of the review was to look at public facing
> infrastructure, what would an IT Audit look for that a Pen-Test would not,
> and vice versa? Theres another concept I keep hearing about that is an "IT
> Healthcheck", how does that differ from the IT Audit or Pen-Test, which does
> it more closely resemble, as IT Audit or a Healthcheck? What are the
> benefits/limitations of each of these 3?
>
> With Regards
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