Abstract: Penetration testing is security check and audit for the network system, by an attacker identity and is a useful supplement of the safety assessment. According to the various types of penetration test, this paper summarized the pen- oration testing object, method, basic procedure, and designed a penetration testing system model, introduced the model of architecture design, main node and test process.

Key words: Penetration test techniques, Penetration test model, Penetration testing method