{"id":4980,"date":"2021-04-23T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.pentestfactory.de\/testing-methods\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:03:05","slug":"testing-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/testing-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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approach Testing methods In the field of offensive security the terms Black-, Grey and White-Box Testing are frequently used. But what do they mean? Term usage During a penetration test configuration or assessment, the terms Black-Box, Grey-Box and White-Box are frequently used. They occur with the following pentests for instance: Active Directory Assessment Attacks without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.pentestfactory.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}