What is Writing Reports in ethical hacking? how can we write a good report writing? Important of report writing in ethical hacking.

Now we are going to get into the essentials of the reporting phase, which will teach you about the structure of a report. We have discussed what a good report should look like. I pointed out that knowing your audience was essential. One of the key factors about a good report is that it should meet the needs for each audience and be presented in a clear and understandable manner.

The next major part of writing a report is the analysis, where we perform risk assessment and calculate the overall risk to the organization based upon our findings; along with this, your report should also provide remediation on how the risk can be averted.

Structure of a Penetration Testing Report

Let’s look step by step on how a good report should be laid out. At the end of this chapter, I have provided links to some of the best reports which have been provided to the local mass.

Cover Page

We start with the cover page; this is where you would include details such as your company logo, title, and a short description about the penetration test. I would suggest you hire a good designer and work on a professional and appealing cover page because if your cover page looks great, it would make a good first impression upon the customer reading it.

Table of Contents

On the very next page, you should have an index so that the audience interested in reading a par-ticular portion of the report can easily skip to that portion.