1. potential incidents represent threats that have yet to happen. why is the identification of the threat important to maintaining security?
2. penetration testing is a particularly important contributor to the incident management process. explain why that is the case, and provide examples of how penetration test results can be used to improve the incident response process.

Any test practices end-user he or she does by step by step process for quality testing. Some end-user will have a checklist to do while testing any software or hardware installing.

A hacking end-user has to do the test process if he or she has to follow some steps during testing.

Explanation:

This process is called penetration testing, in other words, it is called pen-testing.

1. In the digital world, security plays an important role. Before any potential incidents taking place, security threats have to handle properly. Before hacking takes place for pc or workstation or desktop, the end-user has to identify and take proper action.

Mostly all threats happen in c:\users\appdata folder in windows operating system

2. Penetration testing is used to for hacking purpose testing.

a. Step by step method is followed.

b. Best practice testing on network security, computer system, web system and find vulnerability check.

c. The pen test method is involved in legal achievements on network

d. To identify vulnerability assessment inside a network