Offensive security reports are a key deliverable for your clients or internal stakeholders – but they can be tedious and time-consuming to create manually. With a reporting automation platform with AI, you can speed up the process by as much as 75% while also ensuring high-quality reports. Ready to cut reporting time? Here are 10 tips to help you select the right pentest reporting automation platform: 1 Offers an AI report writing assistant: Let’s face it … Writing reports is time consuming. And coming up with verbiage for report narratives or the executive summary can feel like a marathon for your brain. With an AI assistant, you can have the bones of the report drafted so all you have to do is review and edit. That means more time hacking and less time reporting. See our AI assistant in action. 2 Aggregates data from multiple sources: Manually managing information from disparate sources is time consuming and can lead to missed detail or errors. Look for a reporting automation platform that serves as a central location to easily upload results and supports all the tools you or your clients may need. Check out our integrations. 3 Offers a reusable content repository: Technical snippets are a critical component of the report writeup and findings analysis. However, they often are repetitive as similar findings come up in many different engagements. A reporting automation solution that includes a powerful content management module can transform the quality and consistency of finding writeups – regardless of who is writing the report. It enables you to store QAed writeups in organized repositories directly in the reporting platform for single-click, permission-based access. Being able to archive and reuse other forms of content like bios, boilerplates, etc., is also important. Learn about our content library. 4 Captures artifacts: A quality report includes visual evidence that supports the findings and recommendations, like screenshots, code snippets, photos, or even video artifacts. Look for a reporting automation solution that facilitates the capture and storage of all the artifacts and evidence needed for the final report. Discover our asset management capabilities. 5 Facilitates collaboration, QA processes, and scheduling: Many inefficiencies in the report creation process happen during collaboration. An effective pentest reporting automation platform should facilitate collaboration and QA processes to save time and improve the final product. Commenting and change tracking in the same place where reusable content is housed and the report is produced greatly reduces context shifting and version-control issues. And the ability to easily schedule testers for reviews or new engagements makes it that much more efficient. Learn how to collaborate effectively. 6 Formats report templates: The ability to create the template once and automate the inclusion of content and formatting is a game changer for ensuring quality and consistency with every deliverable. Whether you need a fully customized template to represent your service provider’s unique perspective or are seeking multiple standardized templates for different types of security reports, look for a reporting automation platform that will keep branding and content consistent with company standards every time — with much less effort for everyone involved. Explore our templates. 7 Supports dynamic findings delivery: It’s essential to find an offensive security reporting automation platform that enables you to scale an engagement and a report without expending more resources. A reporting automation platform that can support secure dynamic findings delivery gives clients or internal stakeholders access to in-depth information — and even raw data findings — without making the report cumbersome or unreadable. Better yet? Look for a tool with a client-level Jira integration to give immediate findings and recommendations. Supports dynamic findings delivery: Find out about dynamic findings delivery. 8 Ensures secure delivery of reports: A reporting automation platform with a permission-based portal ensures simple secure delivery of the report along with more efficient communication throughout the engagement. It also enables you to communicate scoping questionnaires, provide results throughout the engagement, and deliver the final recommendations securely — all without added tools, steps, or processes. Check out our client portal. 9 Enables context-based risk scoring of findings: Not all findings are equal. And a finding critical to one organization might not be as critical as another even though the CVSS score may be the same. You need a platform that enables you to score findings based on business impact, risk frameworks, etc. With this knowledge, your organization – or clients’ organization – can take the appropriate actions to prevent a breach. Read about PlexTrac Priorities. 10 Passes the customer vibe check: When comparing pentest reporting automation platforms, be sure to ask for customer references. Hearing or reading testimonials from existing customers can help you determine if the platform has the necessary features to meet your needs. View our testimonial videos. Interested in learning more? Our checklist is based on an eBook, Don’t Trade Quality for Speed in Your Pentest Reporting. Download it for additional details or request a demo to speak with a PlexTrac expert. Download eBook Request a Demo
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