Pre-test checklist covering authorisation, scope freeze, backups, monitoring decisions, stakeholder comms, emergency contacts and evidence handling.
The week before a penetration test starts is where avoidable disasters happen — an unverified backup, no emergency contact, or a SOC treating the test as a live incident. This checklist walks through everything to lock down before test day: written authorisation and legal sign-off, a frozen scope, verified restorable backups, a monitoring and alert-whitelisting decision, a stakeholder communications plan, emergency contacts, the agreed test window, and how evidence will be handled and stored.
IT managers and security leads at UK SMEs in the final week before a scheduled penetration test who need to confirm everything is genuinely ready.
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