Beyond Point-in-Time: The ROI Case for Continuous Pentesting

Summary: The article argues that annual or quarterly penetration tests are snapshots that go stale as cloud deployments shift daily and CI/CD pipelines push new code, leaving blind spots attackers exploit. It presents Continuous Penetration Testing, in a human-plus-automation model such as Sprocket Security's, as an ongoing workflow that surfaces findings as they emerge and uses unlimited retesting to verify fixes.
Bottom line: A penetration test that is comprehensive on Monday can be outdated by Friday, and point-in-time testing cannot answer the board's question of whether the organization is getting better. The article's claim is that only continuous validation produces evidence that exploitable paths are actually shrinking.

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