Penetration Test Documentation

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Internal cybersecurity teams within enterprises serve a critical role in protecting the business both through defensive and offensive strategy. However, these functions are often siloed with differing priorities and communication processes. The solution is implementing a pentest reporting automation solution to help your team maximize their offensive security efforts and communicate their progress to all stakeholders.

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Soothe Your Pentest Documentation Pain Points with PlexTrac

PlexTrac aggregates the data from multiple sources and enables cross-team collaboration in a centralized location to streamline and automate the internal testing and documentation life cycle – from planning to remediation.

Problem

PlexTrac Solution

Problem:

Individual pentesters spend too much time on manual, tedious tasks.

PlexTrac Solution:

PlexTrac eliminates copy and pasting, searching static databases, and duplication of efforts.

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Problem:

Managing disparate sources of data — from tools and manual findings — that must be brought together for analysis.

PlexTrac Solution:

PlexTrac serves as a central location to bring data from tools and manual testing together to make triaging data and managing artifacts fast and easy.

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Problem:

Difficulty collaborating effectively within the team to produce consistent documentation about testing activities.

PlexTrac Solution:

PlexTrac saves time and improves quality and consistency with reusable content repositories, quality assurance and formatting features, and custom templating.

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Problem:

Siloed teams and communication due to manual processes stunting prioritization and remediation efforts.

PlexTrac Solution:

PlexTrac offers a built-in ticketing tracker and integration with Jira and ServiceNow to enable rapid prioritization, assignment, and tracking of remediation tasks to improve security posture.

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Problem:

Challenges aggregating data to analyze trends and impact to demonstrate the value of internal pentesting efforts to leadership.

PlexTrac Solution:

PlexTrac’s robust analytics paired with remediation tracking help internal teams tell the story of their progress.

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“
PlexTrac helped us standardize our template and automate the report building process, and it has enabled us to produce reports with a few clicks. We create over 60 reports a year, so the savings in time and resources is significant.”

Alex Boyle, Senior Manager, Offensive Security, Early Warning

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Deploying PlexTrac allowed our team to cut the reporting cycle by sixty five percent.”

Matthew Puckett, Vulnerability Management Team Lead, Jacobs Engineering

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PlexTrac saves our team so much time by automating the manual process of gathering data and building reports from scratch.”

Fortune 100 Insurance Company

Streamline the Pentest Workflow with Automation

PLANNING & EXECUTING

Import data from tools and manual testing for triaging

VALIDATION

Retest to validate remediation efforts and update or reassign remediation tracking

REMEDIATION

Use internal tracker or JIRA or SNOW ticketing to prioritize and assign remediation tasks

REPORT CREATION

Access and customize reusable findings and narrative content

QUALITY CONTROL

Collaborate on revisions and edits with change tracking and commenting

STAKEHOLDER REPORTING

Demonstrate progress with executive summaries and robust analytics

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Pentest Reporting FAQs

A penetration test (pentest) report is a comprehensive document that summarizes the findings and outcomes of a penetration testing engagement. It provides detailed information about the vulnerabilities discovered during the test, including their severity, impact, and potential exploitation methods. A pentest report is used by a business to understand its cybersecurity risks and areas of vulnerability to attack by malicious threat actors.

PlexTrac is a reporting automation solution that supports the creation of pentest and other cybersecurity assessment reporting. With PlexTrac, users can rapidly produce reports customized to their organizational specifications and branding. Report templates may be fully customized or altered from pre-formatted options in the PlexTrac Self-serveTemplating Portal.

A penetration test report should contain an executive summary that provides a high-level overview of the findings and their impact on the organization. It should contain a detailed description of the methodology followed during the test, including the tools and techniques used. The report should also include an in-depth analysis of vulnerabilities discovered, their severity, and recommended remediation measures, along with any supporting evidence such as screenshots, logs, or exploit scripts. Additional observations or recommendations for improving the security posture of the tested system or network may also be added.