Summary

I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, I know that it did not contain some exciting hacking commands, but you should know about the Pre-Engagement phase if you're going to be working in this field.

Let's summarize what you have learned in this chapter:

1. About your first meeting with your client
2. What a Non-Disclosure Agreement is
3. How to kick off a meeting
4. How to estimate the time and cost of your project
5. What a statement of work is?
6. What a Penetration Test Agreement looks like
7. External factors of a penetration test project

In the next chapter, you will learn about Application Threat Modeling, which is, for me, one of the pillars of a successful application security mandate.