Lion Cipher Lab
Turn pentest findings into a phased remediation roadmap
- Penetration Testing / Red Team
- Intermediate
- ~45 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
A penetration test report usually ends with a list of findings in severity order. The client's engineers then face a different question: with the time we actually have, what do we fix first? Severity order is a poor answer on its own. Several findings often share one fix: two injection flaws in the same service are closed by one change to how it queries the database, and three outdated hosts by fixing the patch process. Some fixes take an hour and others take a quarter. NIST SP 800-115 expects assessment reports to include recommendations that help the organization act on findings. A roadmap…
What you'll learn
- grouping findings by the fix that closes them
- estimating effort per fix, not per finding
- ranking fixes by risk removed per effort-day
- measuring how fast each plan reduces risk
- the case for a severity floor, and its measured cost
- phasing work into quick wins, near-term and strategic
- the limits of adding risk scores together
Steps in this lab
- From findings to fixes
- The findings and the fixes
- Write the roadmap script
- Run it: grouping and effort change everything
- Where efficiency gives the wrong answer
- Deliver the roadmap