====== Pre-Engagement ====== ===== Review ===== **The six steps/stages of a PenTest...** - Pre-Engagement: Planning & Scope - Recon: Information Gathering - Scanning - Exploitation - Post-Exploitation - Post-Engagement: Report ===== Overview ===== **Outline of the Pre-Engagement Stage:** - Plan (including: purpose, goals, objectives, etc.) - Scope (what's in scope and what's out of scope) - Rules of Engagement (RoE) - GOAL: A clearly defined and agreed upon written Statement of Work (SoW) ----