There are films and documentaries about it; there's hardly a week goes by without a front cover news story about it. Whichever way you look at it, computer security, or more often the lack of it, is part of our lives. Walking out of the cinema and back into reality one could be forgiven for thinking that any bright teenager with a laptop and an attitude is capable of undermining the very best efforts of a bank's IT security team. Certainly the exploits of the teenage hacker have captured the imaginations of the cinema-going public, yet the reality is closer to fiction than we would like, albeit without the glamour. Penetration Testing as a service has grown into a business in its own right, providing numerous corporations with a valuable weapon in their growing arsenal of security counter measures. Pentest Limited was set up in June 2001 to provide specialist security services to businesses across the UK, North America and Europe. These services include:

• Penetration Testing
• Oracle Security
• Wireless Security
• Security Strategy and Architecture
• Forensics