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# Notes Template Structure

During the penetration testing, it's important to be very organized from the beginning and take notes of each pentest phase and finding.

We can use a notetaking application like: OneNote, Evernote, Notion, Cherrytree,...

Starting with a template helps you starting organized from the beginnig and will save you a lot of time when writing the final Report.

An example OneNote (also applicable to other tools) structure may look like the following for the discovery phase:

## External Penetration Test Template -  \<Client Name>

### Scope

&#x20;(including in-scope IP addresses/ranges, URLs, any fragile hosts, testing timeframes, and any limitations or other relative information we need handy)

### Client Points of Contact

#### Credentials

### Discovery/Enumeration

#### Scans

#### Live hosts

### Application Discovery

### Scans

#### Interesting/Notable Hosts

### Exploitation

#### \<Hostname or IP>

#### \<Hostname or IP>

### Post-Exploitation

#### \<Hostname or IP>

#### \<Hostname or IP>