Continuous pentesting or pentest-as-a-service means aligning cybersecurity efforts across human pentesters, scanners, and solutions like DAST. Rather than choosing between either cybersecurity assessments with scanners or touchpoints with human pentesters, you leverage ongoing scans backed by touchpoints with human-driven pentests or red team assessments for a more comprehensive picture of the attack surface.
CTEM and pentest-as-a-service are quickly becoming the default, with more and more organizations looking into ongoing DAST and SAST plus human-driven pentests. When you pair that with a cybersecurity portal, like with PentestHero, you get ongoing security with all your results delivered in one place, complete with findings, long-term metrics, scheduling, and the option to export tickets directly to work tools.
Full CTEM in One Dashboard
PentestHero means you get scans, pentests, and red team assessments all in one place. The portal means you can link tooling like scanners, import findings directly from pentest tools, and even automatically import via API. You can also schedule and automatically run scans right in the portal, meaning scans run on schedule, results are imported, and results are automatically sent to your stakeholders. That’s ideal whether you’re using CTEM internally or are delivering it as a service to clients – because you everything is in one place.
“With PentestHero, you can link your own scanners or use a built-in one,” says Luis Abreu, CEO of PentestHero, “From there, scheduling scans is a click of a button, so you can fully automate when scans happen, what happens when vulnerabilities are imported, and who’s alerted.”
Metrics and Insights
CTEM brings pentesting, red team assessments, and attack surface management efforts together. That means you can use scans for routine tracking, track vulnerabilities across assets, and track reoccurrences. It also means that pentesters can build on those results during the assessment, because they already know which findings are there and what those findings look like over time. That means pentesting can go deeper, can look at prospective issues not found in scans, and can assess the risk associated with a vulnerability by trying to exploit it.
Dashboards also mean that non-technical stakeholders can get at-a-glance updates, with prioritization, risk summaries, and overviews of what’s happening across assets. That makes it easier to share data like risks, number of risks, reoccurrences, and time-to-fix with key decision-makers. Plus, with access management in place, those stakeholders only see relevant data.
Manage and Delegate Work
Whether you’re delegating work across a pentest team or across an internal cybersecurity team, PentestHero’s dashboard makes it easy to assign and delegate work. For example, client teams can raise issues, request pentests, and request retests to validate remediation. Findings tickets can also be exported to key work management tools like ServiceNow and Jira, making it easy to roll work into sprints.
Pentesters can assign workloads, collaborate on pentests, schedule upcoming pentests, and assign tasks for editing and reviewing reports and findings – even when they come from scans. That makes it easier than ever to see not only who is responsible for doing work, but also when it’s been done, and when it’s scheduled to be completed.
Automate Reporting
Continuous pentesting means more testing, more scanning, and more sharing results with the client. While PentestHero’s portal means that most of those results are shared via tickets, you’ll often still need reports. With PentestHero, those reports are automatically compiled based on project data, including client information, pentest template data, and compliance norms or frameworks. That means you can either automatically publish reports with no time investment for scans or generate most of the report and then manually review and update for simple pentests, or use a library of prepared content for more complex assessments and tests. You’ll reduce time on every report, which becomes more and more important as the volume of testing goes up.
A Pentest Marketplace
PentestHero is a pentest marketplace. That means you can sign up to be matched with clients needing ongoing pentesting. Or, you can sign up to use the pentest portal, where we’ll match you with a pentest team from the marketplace. Once set up, you can start ongoing scanning and pentests and assessments on a schedule agreed on with your pentester. Plus, with a portal, you can have your pentest results delivered as tickets, as a report, or as both, so it’s simple to move findings to remediation and retesting.
CTEM is all about understanding your attack surface, finding vulnerabilities as quickly as possible, and remediating them as quickly as possible. With PentestHero, you have all the tools to do that.