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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By : Aditya Gupta
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Learning Pentesting for Android Devices

By: Aditya Gupta

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Pentesting for Android Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Writing the pentest report


In order to understand how to write the penetration testing report, it is better to have a clear understanding of some of the various important components of the penetration testing report.

Some of the most important components involve:

  • Executive summary

  • Summary of vulnerabilities

  • Scope of the work

  • Tools used

  • Testing methodologies followed

  • Recommendations

  • Conclusion

  • Appendix

Apart from these, there should also be sufficient detail about the penetration testing, the organization conducting the penetration test, and the client, along with the Non Disclosure Agreement. Let us go into each of the above components one by one and take a quick look at it.

Executive summary

Executive summary is a quick walkthrough of the entire outcome of the penetration test. The executive summary need not be much technical, it is just to see the entire summary of the penetration test in as short as possible. This executive summary is the one that is looked at first by the management and senior officials...