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Authorized security testing, enforced by the tool
Most penetration-testing platforms assume you were allowed to do the work. PentSeal makes that assumption provable: ownership verification, a signed scope and an enforced rules-of-engagement boundary come before any scan, and the evidence trail comes with every finding.
The workflow, step by step
1. Prove ownership of every target
Before a target enters scope, PentSeal records how ownership was established — DNS record, file challenge or signed attestation — so the authorization trail starts at the target itself.
2. Sign the scope
The in-scope hosts, ports and testing window are written into a scope record that both sides can point to. Nothing is inferred, and nothing is added after the fact.
3. Enforce the rules of engagement
Scans are confined to the agreed ports and time window. A request that falls outside the ROE is refused at the tool, not left to the operator's discipline.
4. Capture chain-of-custody evidence
Findings carry the request, response and timestamp that produced them, so a reviewer can trace every claim back to the evidence that supports it.
5. Score and map findings
Each finding is scored with CVSS and classified with CWE, then mapped to the controls your SOC 2 or PCI DSS assessment cares about.
6. Export a defensible report
One export produces the report your client and your auditor can both read — including refusing to call 'nothing ran' a pass.
Why authorization-first matters
- A scoping mistake becomes a refusal instead of an incident.
- The authorization record and the evidence record are the same artifact.
- Report claims trace back to captured evidence, so an auditor can follow them.
- Compliance mapping is generated from the findings, not rebuilt by hand.
Authorized security testing FAQ
- What is authorized security testing?
- Authorized security testing is penetration testing run against targets you have explicit permission to test, inside an agreed scope and window. The authorization is recorded before the work starts, so the testing is defensible after the fact.
- How does PentSeal prove authorization?
- It records target-ownership verification, a signed scope covering hosts, ports and the testing window, and an enforced rules-of-engagement boundary. A scan that would fall outside the ROE is refused rather than run.
- Does PentSeal keep an evidence trail?
- Yes. Findings retain the request, response and timestamp behind them, giving a chain of custody that a reviewer or auditor can follow back to source evidence.
- Can PentSeal map findings to compliance frameworks?
- Findings are scored with CVSS, classified with CWE and mapped to SOC 2 and PCI DSS control areas so the export can feed a compliance assessment rather than needing a separate spreadsheet.
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