Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good

Re:Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good by Liuser on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:29PM (#14103351)

I used to pentest for a living. Still do some red team exercises every now and then, but far less now that I'm mainly blueteam focused.

I personally organized my report into three sections, which seemed to work well. Clients seemed to enjoy the formatting:

1. Executive - Summarize everything in one page at a high level. You could skim it fast if you chose to. Highlight potential negative business impact of each finding.

2. Management - A little more detailed. 2-3 pages max. Most severe findings at the top and recommended action for remediation.

3. Narrative - This is the bulk 80-90% of the report detailing your step by step process including screenshots so that if someone wanted to duplicate your findings they could.

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Re:Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good by Ntrails on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:56AM (#14105284)

The last (and only) pen test report I saw had some "escalation of such and such via this vague vector, please do x and y to close off this avenue" - strongly implying that they felt the actual trick being used was their IP to be protected?

This was for using citrix boxes to provide saas to a client

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