With the increasing penetration of security threats, the severity of their impact on the underlying network has increased manifold.
Then, one day in March, the director of penetration for security consulting firm IOActive discovered the biggest flaw in DNS for 11 years.
While statistics for copyright infringement are readily available from Business Software Alliance, similar data for market penetration of security technologies is admittedly harder to acquire.
There are four different "channels" that can benefit from penetration testing: physical security, wireless communications, telecommunications, and data networks.
But Western governments and corporations have become increasingly concerned about the possibility of government backing for the penetration of computer security in the West.
And, as you pursue an IPO, you would pursue edge cases, penetration testing and security testing.
"This has the potential to productize a multi-billion dollar consulting market around security penetration," the investor said.
After the "Kaminsky bug" blowup, he left his position as a penetration tester at security firm IOActive to join the incubator Recursion Ventures, but has since left that firm, too, for another stealthy project called Dan Kaminsky Holdings.
Figure 2 shows an initial decline in the proportion of profit-motivated vehicle thefts involving vehicles aged 5 9 years, which may partially be explained by the increasing penetration of new security into this age range.
Crowdsourced bug bounty marketplace Bugcrowd has raised $1.6 million from investors to grow its community of 3,000 vetted security penetration testers who can find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a new feature or application.
