From the course: Security Testing Essential Training (2022)
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Coordinating your assessments
From the course: Security Testing Essential Training (2022)
Coordinating your assessments
- [Instructor] The information that you collect during security assessments is often highly sensitive as is the report that you'll ultimately generate and deliver to your customer. With this in mind, you need to make sure that you've given careful thought to how you'll conduct each assessment and how you'll coordinate the resources and the communications throughout the engagement. Here are a few items that I recommend you think through beforehand, documenting your planned approach to each one. Identify the stakeholders, stakeholders are those people who have an interest, or a stake in the assessment. While you're likely to be initially engaged by the information security team the set of stakeholders extends far beyond that group. Common stakeholders include network administrators, system administrators, and application administrators for any in scope systems or applications. Since your testing activity could potentially,…
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