Pentest reports
The pentest report is the fruit of your pentesting labor. All of that hard work you put in over days or weeks running various vulnerability scans and simulated exploits is all for nothing if you don’t communicate your vulnerability findings to your organization’s defensive security team and corporate leadership in an effective way. They need to have all of the possible information you’ve found about your network’s security posture communicated in a way that’s easy to understand. If your pentest report is effective, then your organization will be able to use your security findings to security harden its network and applications.
Pentest reports can be anywhere from just a few pages to over 100 pages; it all depends on how many pentesting exercises and scans you’ve conducted. 50 pages is close to the average based on what I’ve experienced. But don’t set a goal of making your report approximately 50 pages; the...
