Question

What is difference between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment?

Answer 1

Hey here is answer to your question.

Vulnerability Assessment => Its a method to  discover and scan security vulnerabilities. in particular given environment. It is a comprehensive assessment and research of the securty analyst. it identify the issues and try to mitigate the risk.

Penetration Testing => In this the tester try to replicate the attacker with the intent of breaking the security and gain sensitve data or files or to disrupt the company. So with advanced tools and methods "Ethical Hacker" try to replicate the attacks and put effort to secure the systems.