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Stages of a penetration test

Now that you understand what penetration testing is, you may be wondering what the flow of a penetration test is. Penetration testing has a number of stages, and each stage forms an important part of the overall penetration test.

There are various standards that relate to penetration testing. This book does not follow any one of them specifically. There are other known standards, such as the following:

NIST SP800-115 standard – https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-115/final
Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) – http://www.isecom.org/research

The following stages follow the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), which I found to be a great starting point. The full standard can be found at http://www.pentest-standard.org/.