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Improving Your Offensive Security Scoping: Common Pitfalls and Best Practices

When it comes to offensive security projects, getting the scoping phase right can make or break the success of your assessment. Here are some of the most common pitfalls and how you can address them.

The Four Phases of Successful Pentest Scoping and How to Master Them

Scoping is one of the most critical parts of a penetration testing project. Get it right, and your project runs smoothly with clear expectations and confident delivery. Get it wrong, and you risk misunderstandings, missed tasks, or wasted effort. Over the years, I’ve seen that most challenges in pentesting projects can be traced back to weak scoping practices. With the right approach—and the right tools—you can make scoping both precise and efficient. This is exactly where Pentahub focuses: helping you structure, automate, and elevate your scoping process.

Why Penetration Testing Projects Still Fail and How to Fix It

If you’ve ever managed a pentest project and felt overwhelmed by the amount of repetitive tasks, unclear responsibilities or tasks slipping through the cracks, you’re not alone. During my 8 years of performing penetration testing and leading multiple teams, I’ve noticed that both the quality of our service and the efficiency of project execution can be significantly improved. Many times when you attempt to improve or change your pentesting processes you will find that it's difficult to enforce these new processes and validate that all tasks are performed.

These problems could all benefit from a system that streamlines and assists with project execution, leading to more consistent and efficient projects but also it will be easier to improve the quality of the service without adding much overhead to the project.