Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Chapter 3. Target Scoping

Target Scoping is defined as an empirical process to gather target assessment requirements and characterize each of its parameters in order to generate a test plan, its limitations, business objectives, and time schedule. This process plays an important role in defining clear objectives towards any kind of security assessment. By determining these key objectives, one can easily draw a practical road map of what will be tested, how it will be tested, what resources will be allocated, what limitations will be applied, what business objectives will be achieved, and how the test project will be planned and scheduled. Thus, we have combined all of these elements and presented them in a formalized scope process to achieve ...