Dan DeCloss — Founder of PlexTrac
Aug 17, 2026
Penetration testing is intended to help organizations identify weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Once testing ends, findings must be documented, reviewed, formatted, delivered, assigned, tracked, remediated, and eventually retested. In many organizations, each of those steps happens in a different system and depends on a manual handoff.
Testers work in one set of tools. Reports are assembled in Word or spreadsheets. Findings are delivered through PDFs. Security teams recreate them in ticketing systems. Engineering teams update remediation status somewhere else. Retesting is coordinated through email or meetings.
By the time the right owner receives the information needed to act, days or weeks may have passed.
