From the course: Complete Guide to Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach

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Planning and scoping a penetration testing assessment

Planning and scoping a penetration testing assessment

From the course: Complete Guide to Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach

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Planning and scoping a penetration testing assessment

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- [Instructor] All right, let's go over some of the details related to planning and scoping a pen testing assessment. And this also applies for a red team assessment as well, right? At the end of the day, you actually have to have an initial client meeting. And whenever I put here client meeting, that can be your boss. If you're a full-time employee at a company, it can be your chief information security officer or you know, a director of cybersecurity or whatever the title of that person actually has, right? But at the end of the day, what you have to do is understand what is the goal that they're trying to achieve with that pen test, right? There are a few questions that you always should ask. What are the key assets that you're concerned about? What are the things that you actually want to find vulnerabilities? What are the types of attacks and threats that you're most concerned on? And do you have any type of compliance requirements? And remember earlier in the course I mentioned…

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