“It only took 47 minutes for the ethical hacker to find what we missed for months.” That was the sentence no engineering team wants to hear after a security review. The application had passed internal testing. The login system worked perfectly. The APIs were “secured.” The dashboard looked clean and protected. On the surface, everything seemed fine. But within less than an hour of penetration testing, a security expert uncovered multiple vulnerabilities that could have led to a full data breach. No malware. No sophisticated zero-day exploit. Just simple weaknesses that had been overlooked. And that’s the reality of modern web security. 🔐 What Is Penetration Testing? Penetration testing (or pentesting) is the process of simulating real-world cyberattacks on a web application to identify security vulnerabilities before malicious attackers can exploit them. Unlike automated scanners, penetration testers think like attackers.…