Evaluate the proposed work and team
Request named delivery roles, relevant experience, availability and evidence supporting any professional claims. Confirm whether subcontractors are involved and how independence or conflicts are managed. This website makes no unverified certification or accreditation claim.
We distinguish a scanner observation from a validated weakness, usable access from network reachability, and demonstrated impact from an untested possibility.
Make the proposal specific
- Objectives, systems, roles, scenarios and explicit exclusions.
- Operating windows, safety controls, test data and supplier permissions.
- Named responsibilities for incident escalation and stop decisions.
- Secure evidence transfer, retention, confidentiality and data processing.
- Reporting, remediation discussions, included retests and change control.
Review a sample for substance
Look for actual observations and verifiable acceptance criteria. A scan finding without validation or an attack narrative without scope limits is hard to use. Compare the sample’s technical detail with what the proposal commits to deliver.
Our Meridian Group AG sample is clearly fictional and available for this evaluation.
Understand the basis for duration and fees
Systems, roles, business logic, third parties and operational windows determine the work. There is no public fixed-price package or guaranteed completion time. The agreed statement of work should show assumptions, inclusions, retest allowance and how changes affect the schedule.
Confirm the operational plan
Use written authorisation, agreed environments, synthetic data and named stop authority. Define rate limits, excluded methods, cleanup and escalation before testing. Production activity and supplier systems require explicit permission.
Prepare a brief before the scoping call
Describe the decision you need to make, the systems involved and the boundaries the test must examine. The brief turns that context into proposed workstreams and questions for the scoping call.
Use the free penetration testing brief builder to record objectives, assessment areas, constraints and NDA preferences. Review the proposed scope, then send it directly to Atlant Security through the contact form.
