Guidance and recommendations based on my experience
In this section, I will provide some guidance and recommendations regarding pentesting that I have gathered from my experience.
Note-taking
Always, always, always take notes; it’s a great habit, so get used to it.
When you are looking for vulnerabilities, while in the reconnaissance phase, you will discover a lot of things, a lot of information (some important, some not), so you have to know how to write down only what is necessary and discard what isn’t. By doing this, you will work in a more orderly and non-chaotic way. This will be reflected in the quality of your work and the report to be delivered.
How should you take notes? Well, this is a bit personal; everyone has a way of taking notes. Some people like to take digital notes, while others take notes in physical notebooks.
I prefer to take digital notes; for this, I use Notepad, a text and source code editor:
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