With the report completed, it is now time to deliver it to the original stakeholders as our final deliverable. How and to whom you deliver it to should be defined in the original scoping meeting. This is an important process, as the document we create can contain sensitive information that you wouldn't want to be leaked out to anyone. If this information got into the wrong hands, such as hackers, they would know all the weaknesses and exactly where to attack.

The first step is to decide whether the report needs to be delivered electronically, physically, or a combination of both. Let us start with electronically. In this digital age, protecting the documents is of utmost importance. Encryption of some type needs to be considered. This tends to be a symmetric key that is shared over some other type of medium or maybe prearranged earlier in the conversation. This way, if a digital copy leaks out, they would need the key to be able to read it. Also, make sure that the key...