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Practical Hardware Pentesting
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Practical Hardware Pentesting

by Jean-Georges Valle
April 2021
Beginner to intermediate
382 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 13: Scoring and Reporting Your Vulnerabilities

Now that you have managed to find a lot of problems in your target system, how do you give a score to them and present them to your client? And even more importantly, how do you actually explain the vulnerabilities so it makes sense to your client (both business- and risk-management-wise)?

The most important aspects of scoring and reporting are the following:

  • Be consistent (in scoring and format)
  • Be clear
  • Separate the information based on the audience
  • Use a scoring system that is formally agreed on by the client
  • If they want to adjust the scoring of a vulnerability, they own their risk but this change must leave a written trace
  • All the vulnerabilities must be discussed with the client. ...
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