Re: Pen Test Data/Report Management; Tracking/Procedure document

From: wirepair (wirepair@roguemail.net)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 22:31:45 EST


Creating a database and some web app is really way easier than you think, invest 40-80 hours learning basic
NonMS: MySQL/php
MS: MSSQL (MSDE is free)/VBScript/ASP.
and you can probably have what you're looking for at at least a basic configuration. (doing diff's and stuff will probably
take longer). I did the same thing for nessus and was feeling the hate towards finding stuff easily just as you have.
-wire

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:27:01 -0600
  "JTH" <jth@visi.com> wrote:
>All, two things.
>
>First, I'm working on trying to find a solution of some sort that I can
>use to collect & hold information and results from scans performed for
>different clients. Ideally, the end result would allow me to pull up
>previously delivered deliverables for comparison. The generated
>deliverable would pull info from nmap, nessus, superscan, phonesweep, and
>any other tools that I use in my assessment. I'd like to get as close as
>possible to a point-n-click report setup. I would then take this and clean
>it up, add an executive summary, my recommendations, etc. and be done,
>rather than having to gather & reformat all of this information (which is
>what I'm doing right now.)
>
>An obvious answer is either to dump everything into a database or use
>XSLT/XML with all of this data, but I don't [yet] know enough about this
>stuff to do this, nor do I know what an ideal design would look like.
>Aside from this, I'd much rather use or modify an existing tool than
>engineer one, if I can.
>
>I know topics like this have come up, but several searches on the archive
>didn't come up with much except for tool-specific solutions (i.e.
>nmap-only). Does anyone know of or use an all-in-one type program to save
>and tie this information together?
>
>Second, and more or less unrelated, when you perform a penetration test,
>how do you track your progress? Do you use a spreadsheet/workbook, an
>audit-style checklist, notebook, etc?
>
>Thanks, jth.
>
>
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