In the 2003 version of The Italian Job, Charlize Theron plays an ethical safe-cracker who pits her wits against the latest models to tell the manufacturers whether their products are any good. Naturally, she can crack the lot. And pretty soon she’s lured into an ingenious gold heist involving Mini Coopers, but, alas, no Sir Michael Caine.
A more imaginative remake might have cast Theron as a penetration tester. These skilled professionals hack into IT systems to pinpoint their weaknesses for their owners. A company needs to know whether its valuable data is secure. But, as per the film, it also needs to know that its pen testers are elite white-hat hackers who aren’t going to cause mayhem in the course of their work.
So how do you go about finding a reliable pen tester?