Pentest Report for Enterprise Customers: What to Send

It usually happens late in a deal. The champion loves your product, procurement is moving, and then the security team sends a questionnaire with one line that stops everything: "Please provide your most recent third-party penetration test report."

If you do not have one, the deal stalls. If you send the wrong thing, such as a raw scanner export, it can stall anyway. This guide covers what enterprise reviewers want and how to give it to them.

Why enterprises ask for a pentest report

Large companies are accountable for the security of their vendors. Their own auditors, regulators and boards expect them to assess third-party risk, and a pentest report is one of the clearest pieces of evidence that a vendor takes security seriously. It shows three things a questionnaire cannot: that someone independent tried to break your product, what they found, and that you fixed it.

What a good vendor pentest report contains

Security reviewers read a lot of these. The ones that pass quickly share the same structure:

• Executive summary. One page in plain language: what was tested, overall risk, and the headline result.
• Scope and dates. The application, APIs and environments tested, and when. Reviewers usually want a test from the last twelve months.
• Methodology. Which standards were covered, for example OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10, and whether testing was authenticated.
• Findings summary. A count by severity: critical, high, medium, low, informational.
• Remediation status. Which findings are fixed and verified, which are in progress, and which are accepted risks with justification.
• Attestation or retest letter. Optional but powerful: a short letter confirming that critical and high issues were retested and resolved.

What to redact before sending

You do not have to share exploit details with a prospect. A common, accepted practice is to send:

1. The executive summary and scope.
2. The findings table with titles, severity and status.
3. A retest or attestation letter.

Withhold or redact step-by-step reproduction details, internal hostnames, credentials used for testing, and anything that would help an attacker if the document leaked. Share under NDA where possible. Most reviewers are satisfied with this; if they ask for more, offer a call to walk through specific findings.

What makes reviewers nervous

• Open criticals or highs with no plan. Fix them, retest, and then send the report.
• A scanner export presented as a pentest. Reviewers recognise these, and it hurts credibility.
• Scope that only covers the marketing site. They want to know the product is tested.
• A report that is years old. Anything over a year old will prompt a request for something newer.

When the deal cannot wait six weeks

Traditional pentest firms need a scoping call, a statement of work and a slot in their schedule. That can take weeks before testing starts, and the deal may not survive the wait.

SecurityInfinity was built for this situation. Autonomous agents test your web app, APIs and cloud in parallel, verify every finding and attach the exact fix. You can have a first report in about ten minutes, fix what it finds, rerun the test and send the clean result to your customer. Get a pentest report or book a demo if you want to walk through what your customer will see.

A simple response template

Thanks for the request. Attached is a summary of our most recent penetration test, covering our production web application and APIs, performed on [date]. All critical and high findings were remediated and verified by retest on [date]. We are happy to walk your team through the results on a call, and can share additional detail under NDA.

Frequently asked questions

Can I send my SOC 2 report instead of a pentest report?

Sometimes. A SOC 2 Type 2 report often satisfies vendor reviews, but many security teams still ask for the pentest separately because it shows application-level testing in more detail.

Do I need to fix every finding before sharing the report?

No. Fix critical and high findings, and document a plan for medium and low ones. Reviewers expect some open low-severity items.

How recent does the report need to be?

Most enterprise reviewers expect a test within the last twelve months, and after any major product change.