BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Post testing procedures

Remediation measures, corrective steps, and recommendations are all terms referring to post testing procedures. These procedures relatively set your active role as an advisor to the remediation team at the target organization, and sometimes put you in a security analyst position. In this capacity, you may be required to interact with a number of technical people with different backgrounds, so your social appearance and networking skills can be of great value. Additionally, it is not possible to hold all sets of knowledge required by the target IT environment unless you get trained for it. In such situations, it is quite challenging to handle and remediate every single piece of vulnerable resource without getting any support ...