{"id":1447,"date":"2017-11-06T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2023-03-24T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:20:32","slug":"what-makes-penetration-testing-impactful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varutra.com\/varutravrt3\/what-makes-penetration-testing-impactful\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Penetration Testing Impactful – Post Exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAs a penetration tester, we often come across this riddle \u2013 What Makes Penetration Testing Really Impactful<\/strong>. As per penetration testing methodology \u2013 we identify vulnerability, prioritize the vulnerability considering the criticality of impacted assets, we obtain\/modify\/create an exploit, compromise the target system and we are all excited and happy. BUT, \u2018whoami\u2019 command output in a black screen may not mean anything to C-Suite executives, who have never opened the command prompt, or rather not need to.<\/p>\n

So how do you explain C-suite executives the consequences\/impact of the exploit which you just performed?<\/p>\n

Here comes a skillset to our rescue \u2013 Relevant Post Exploitation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n