The management report
The management report is generally designed to cover the issues, including regulatory and compliance measurement, in terms of target security posture. Practically, it should extend the executive report with a number of sections that may interest Human Resources (HR) and other management people, and assist in their legal proceedings. Following are the key parts that may provide you with valuable grounds for the creation of such a report:
- Compliance achievement: This initiates a list of known standards and maps each of its sections or subsections with the current security disposition. It should highlight any regulatory violations that occurred that might inadvertently expose the target infrastructure and pose serious threats.
- Testing methodology: This should be described briefly and should contain enough details to help the management people understand the penetration testing life cycle.
- Assumptions and limitations: This highlights the known factors that may have prevented...