Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition

Preparing your presentation

In order to accomplish a successful presentation, it is helpful to understand the technical capabilities and goals of your audience. You will need to tweak the material according to your audience; otherwise, you will face a negative reaction. Your key task is to make your client understand the potential risk factors surrounding the areas you have tested. For instance, managers at the executive level may not have time to worry about the details of a social engineering attack vector, but they will be interested in knowing the current state of security and what remediation measures should be taken to improve their security posture.

Although there is no formal procedure to create and present your findings, you should ...