What is Executive summary in ethical hacking? some of the essential points that you should take into consideration while writing an executive summary.

As the name suggests, an executive summary is the portion that is specifically addressed to execu-tives such as the CEO or the CIO of the company.

The executive summary is the most essen-tial part of a penetration testing report; a good executive summary can make all the difference between a good report and a bad one.

Since the executive summary is specifically written to address the nontechnical audience, you should make sure that it’s presented in such a way that it’s easily comprehensible. Following are some of the essential points that you should take into consideration while writing an executive summary.

1.Since executives are very busy, they have minimal time to invest in reading your reports. Therefore you should make sure that your executive summary is precise and to the point.

2.Your executive summary should start with defining the purpose of the engagement and how it was carried out. Things such as the scope should be defined but very precisely.

3.Next, you should explain the results of the penetration test and the findings.

4.Following this, you should discuss the overall weaknesses in general and the countermea-sures that were not implemented that caused the vulnerability in the first place.

5.Next comes the analysis part; this is where you should write about the overall risk that was determined based upon our findings. 6.And, finally, you should write about to what extent the risk would decrease after addressing the issues and implementing the appropriate countermeasures.

The following is an example of an executive summary that we wrote for a customer. I would sug-gest you spend some time reviewing the essential points discussed and compare them with the executive summary that follows.