Professional Penetration Testing

Wrapping Everything Up

In the final part of the book, we focus on creating a final report for our client, cleaning up our lab for the next penetration test, and identifying training needs of penetration test team members. The final report is the culmination of all our efforts to this point – the hacking activities in Part II of this book may seem more thrilling than writing a report, but the final report is how we get our paychecks. We really need to focus on providing detailed information for our clients, so they can improve their overall security posture.

Beyond the final report, we need to clean up our lab and get ready for our next project. If we have used malware in our lab, we need to pay particular attention to system sanitization ...