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Understanding post-engagement cleanup

Understanding post-engagement cleanup

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Understanding post-engagement cleanup

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- [Instructor] One important phase is the post-engagement cleanup. You are liable for any unintended, you know, pieces of exploits or changes that you did during the assessment, and especially if an attacker can take advantage of those things in those systems, right? So the post-engagement cleanup phase is crucial. Failing to properly clean up, you know, will leave sensitive holes and disrupt business operations and even legal liabilities into you, right? So the first thing is, document, you know, everything. Maintain a really good documentation and all the logs of all the changes you're actually doing. And it's very, very hard to do. I recognize that. In real life, this is extremely hard to do, but try to make it part of your methodology, make it part of your tools and so on. And especially if you are doing things like payloads and different backdoors and everything. So that data removal of any uploaded files or test data or any dummy users that you created, you know, just to…

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