Question: Alice is a security professional for an e - commerce company. She hired a team to conduct a penetration test against her company's IT infrastructure.
Alice is a security professional for an ecommerce company. She hired a team to conduct a penetration test against her company's IT infrastructure. During the planning stage, Alice neglected to mention that the company would be launching a new customerfacing website during the window allowed for the penetration test. The penetration test proceeded, and the test attack interrupted service during the website launch. Management was upset that a test scenario disrupted a major website launch. How should this situation have been handled?
A Alice should have been better communicator.
B The penetration testing company should have performed a pretest prior to the actual penetration test to know when customers would be on the website.
C Alice should have selected a different penetration testing company.
D The penetration testing company should have checked the ecommerce client's social media sites for any upcoming events.
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