The Business of Hacking: Creating, Developing, and Maintaining an Effective Penetration Testing Team

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M. Butler, J. G. OakleyThe Business of Hackinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0174-7_13

13. The Wedge

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Your team has conducted a world-class assessment. They communicated with the client throughout the whole process, so the client is thoroughly aware of the value that your team delivered to them. The outbrief goes smoothly, and the client accepts the vulnerabilities your team reports, discusses remediation suggestions, and tentatively suggests a time when your team can verify their patches.

Now what?

If you’re like most penetration testing team, your job is done. You ...