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How To Write A Pentest Report That Gets Your Findings Fixed

How To Write A Pentest Report That Gets Your Findings Fixed

Source: YouTube · NahamSec · published Dec 2, 2024 · 20:23

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Writing a professional pentest report is crucial for ensuring clients understand and act on security findings, as most existing reports are either too technical for management or too vague for technical teams to implement effectively 0:15.

Key Takeaways:
• The primary challenge for pentesters is not just finding vulnerabilities, but communicating them so clients actually remediate them 0:06.
• Most pentest reports fail because they are either overly technical for executives or lack the specificity needed for technical teams to take action 0:17.
• A successful report must bridge the gap between executive-level risk understanding and technical implementation details 0:31.

By adopting a structured approach that caters to both audiences, pentesters can significantly improve the impact of their security assessments.

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  • 0:15 Introduction to the problem of ineffective pentest reports
  • 0:06 The challenge of getting clients to act on findings
  • 0:17 Critique of current report quality
  • 0:31 Goal of creating a professional report for all stakeholders

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if you are a pentester then you already know this finding vulnerabilities is only half of the battle the real challenge is getting your clients to actually understand and act on your findings I've reviewed and written hundreds of pentest reports over their years and I'll be honest most of them are terrible they're either too technical for management to understand it or it's just too vague for technical teams to take action today I'm going to show you exactly how to write a professional pentest report that both Executives and Technical teams will actually report and Implement and speaking of professional reports this video is brought to you by our sponsor PL track they have built an amazing platform that helps pentesters create a stunning professional reports in half the time but more on th…