Re: Pen-Test startup help

From: Jonathan Rickman (jonathan@xcorps.net)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 15:14:10 EDT


On Saturday 23 August 2003 15:57, Gerald Cody Bunch wrote:
> This may or may not be 100% on topic, but I believe that it would fit in
> good. From what I have read pen-tests are supposedly well documented
> from the start (or should be) and some form of report generated at the
> end. My question is, what templates/procedures do the members of this
> list use? Are there any standards for documentation, and/or publicly
> available templates/procedures?

I follow the OSSTM Manual. Not quite to the letter, but pretty close. As for
pre and post test documentation, I have my own document templates for
several different lines of business.

http://www.isecom.org/projects/osstmm.htm

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net
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