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_5

5. Operational Management

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

The execution of offensive cybersecurity projects requires a coordinated team, communication with the client, and a properly prepared project. Each of these requirements contributes to the overall success of the project and ignoring any of them comes with consequences.

Client Management

Client communication is the most important factor in understanding, preparing for, and directing an assessment. This might seem somewhat obvious, after all who other than ...