US Patent 10999308 Setting-up penetration testing campaigns

Methods and systems for penetration testing of a networked system by a penetration testing system (e.g. that is controlled by a user interface of a computing device) are disclosed herein. In one example, a penetration testing campaign is executed according to a manual and explicit selecting of one or more goals of an attacker of the penetration testing campaign. Alternatively or additionally, a penetration testing campaign is executed according to an automatic selecting of of one or more goals of the attacker (e.g. according to a type of attacker of the penetration testing campaign).