Back rooms. Black metal. Two shadowy figures furiously hacking away on the same keyboard at the same time. Thanks to its seemingly sinister objective – breaking into enterprise networks – penetration testing is often considered a dark art. But people just need to get to know it better.





We first launched “Under the Hoodie” in 2017 to demystify the practice of penetration testing by surveying those in the field on what they see during client engagements—all to determine countermeasures you can take to best detect and prevent the truly sinister folks from breaching your network. We’ve renewed this approach in 2018 to continue providing visibility into this often occult niche of information security.





To dive into this year's findings, read the executive summary and the full report, watch the on-demand webcast, and check out the pen tester video testimonials below. To see a visual overview of our research, view our infographic.