What a pentest report needs so development can actually use it

A report that cannot be handed to development is obvious from page one. There is an "overall security score", logos and a two-hundred-row table where half the lines are informational notes about headers. The owner does not understand what will happen to orders. The developer does not understand which file to open.

Two layers, and both are needed

The first layer is the summary. What was confirmed, what it means for customers and money, what to fix first. No ten-page retelling of the method. The second layer is a finding card: under what condition it exists, whom it affects, how severe it is and how to close it. A scanner may have hinted at the place. The card keeps only what a person checked.

• Severity is tied to your site, not to an abstract scale of "that is how the internet does it".
• It says what was out of scope. Otherwise silence is read as "all clear".
• There is an order, not fifty equal items.
• A retest is included. A closed item without it is a checkbox.

That is the report Lexora hands over after a website pentest. If you already have a PDF from another vendor and nobody can work from it, a basic audit or a review of that file is often more useful than a new scan. The basic audit is free for new clients. The pentest itself is from $50 per endpoint, with a retest after the fixes.