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Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - Stanley - Oct 11, 2025
Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact
Penetration testing is critical to uncovering real-world security weaknesses. With the shift into continuous testing and validation, it is time we automate the delivery of these results.
The way results are delivered hasn’t kept up with today’s fast-moving threat landscape. Too often, findings are packaged into static reports, buried in PDFs or spreadsheets, and handed off manually to
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RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - Hackers - Oct 11, 2025
100%
CL1B ttbr0
Looking for leadership in this area!
Scans & analysis
Reports
Automated tasks
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - CL1B - Oct 12, 2025
(Oct 11, 2025 10:53 PM)enki Wrote: 100%
CL1B ttbr0
Looking for leadership in this area!
Scans & analysis
Reports
Automated tasks
We getting there
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - RangoWorld - Oct 12, 2025
I have always felt there's not enough automation in the cyber security running of things. Wherever it can help. It's welcomed.
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - JoshAllen - Oct 12, 2025
For #3, "Send Real-Time Alerts for Critical Findings" it should be noted that these "critical" findings, are actually critical.
Many times that are not and lead to wasted time.
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - Hackers - Oct 12, 2025
(Oct 12, 2025 06:26 AM)Tyler™ Wrote: For #3, "Send Real-Time Alerts for Critical Findings" it should be noted that these "critical" findings, are actually critical.
Many times that are not and lead to wasted time.
Sometimes the ratings feel off where it's "critical" but it requires the most specific setup that may not apply, along with already escalated privs to slightly escalate them further. Is that "critical" ?
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - Vectura - Oct 12, 2025
Nice piece. Automating pentest delivery is overdue, static PDF handoffs waste time and reduce impact. If you can push findings into triage pipelines, ticket systems, and continuous validation loops, remediation actually happens faster and teams learn from the results. Practical, prioritized outputs beat long reports every time.
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - leste - Oct 30, 2025
Pentest results getting stuck in PDFs is ridiculous.
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - B3A - Oct 31, 2025
Automation makes pentest reports more useful. auto alerts and ticketing are the real win.
Also nice idea to filter out low risk noise. curious how many teams actually do this.
RE: Automating Pentest Delivery: 7 Key Workflows for Maximum Impact - JoshAllen - Nov 1, 2025
(Oct 12, 2025 07:31 AM)nodes Wrote: Sometimes the ratings feel off where it's "critical" but it requires the most specific setup that may not apply, along with already escalated privs to slightly escalate them further. Is that "critical" ?
Thank you for opening my eyes to this topic. I will consider that more to determine what actually is critical.