By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”
Let’s get something straight: hiring a penetration tester is useless if you’re not ready to actually fix the holes they find.
But here we are — your hired gun runs a slew of tests, uncovers your infrastructure’s dirty secrets, and what happens?
Nothing.
Why?
Because the same corporate “leaders” who pay for the test have already decided they don’t care about the results.
It’s easier to blame the pen tester. It’s easier to say, “We’ll fix it next quarter.”
But guess what?
Next quarter, your network is still a playground for every malicious actor with half a brain and a bottle of coffee.
Penetration testing isn’t just a checkbox. It isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a last-line defense.
But executives treat it like a sideshow — something to boast about in a meeting but ignore when budgets need to be cut.
What’s the point of finding 100 vulnerabilities if you’re never going to patch a damn one?
We’re talking critical flaws that let attackers waltz in.
We’re talking misconfigurations that let your cloud infrastructure be breached in minutes.
And guess what?
The pen tester just gave you a map to your doom, but instead of taking action, you file it away, order another coffee, and let it fester.
You don’t fix it. You don’t patch it. You don’t care.
And then you pay the piper when the attack happens.
Ransomware. Data exfiltration. A compromised network.
Now, suddenly, everyone cares.
But by then, it’s too late.
Here’s the cold truth:
Penetration testers are putting their time and skills into a void.
They find your flaws.
They expose your weaknesses.
And you?
You bury the report in a desk drawer until the next incident.
You’re wasting their time.
They know it.
You know it.
And the attackers know it.
So what’s the real cost here?
It’s not just the cost of the pen tester’s fee.
It’s the cost of unmitigated risk.
The cost of protection you’re not using.
The cost of events you could have prevented.
Stop wasting your penetration tester’s time and stop wasting your company’s future.
If you’re going to hire a professional to break your system —
then for God’s sake, fix what they break.
Otherwise, why bother?
DeadSwitch out.
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