Table of Contents

Pre-Engagement

Review

The six steps/stages of a PenTest…

  1. Pre-Engagement: Planning & Scope
  2. Recon: Information Gathering
  3. Scanning
  4. Exploitation
  5. Post-Exploitation
  6. Post-Engagement: Report

Overview

Outline of the Pre-Engagement Stage:

  1. Plan (including: purpose, goals, objectives, etc.)
  2. Scope (what's in scope and what's out of scope)
  3. Rules of Engagement (RoE)
  4. GOAL: A clearly defined and agreed upon written Statement of Work (SoW)