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.

Such a system should be capable of interacting with other company resources, such as any file shares or drives, communication channels and other internal web applications such as your reporting tools or sales tools. Allowing you to eliminate these boring repetitive tasks from your team. A task and workflow system can help with tracking the progress of the project and importantly making sure that every member of the project knows what current tasks they need to execute.

Analysing the data from our pilot project, we discovered that they were able to save 4 hours of work for each project. Leading to around 470 EURO saving per project, which improved the project margins and also led to more confident teams since they were able to focus on their core job function.

The cost saving is one aspect, but the time saved also allows you to perform more projects with less workforces required, which allows you to scale much easier, especially when a streamlined platform tracks the progress of each project closely.

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