I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, I know that it did not contain some exciting hacking commands, but you should know about the Pre-Engagement phase if you're going to be working in this field.
Let's summarize what you have learned in this chapter:
- About your first meeting with your client
- What a Non-Disclosure Agreement is
- How to kick off a meeting
- How to estimate the time and cost of your project
- What a statement of work is?
- What a Penetration Test Agreement looks like
- External factors of a penetration test project
In the next chapter, you will learn about Application Threat Modeling, which is, for me, one of the pillars of a successful application security mandate.