Your Best Pentest Trapped in a Document
The DefectDojo way: pentests as living security data
Standardize findings across every engagement, track remediation through to close, and hand the client a report that writes itself.
Your Pentest lives in a buried file
Red teams and pentest consultancies do the work no scanner can. Manual exploitation, chained attack paths, and business logic flaws.
The deliverable is usually a static report that gets read once, filed, and forgotten. Findings from last quarter's pentest can't be compared against this quarter's. Retest verification means digging through old documents. And AppSec teams receiving pentest reports have no way to track remediation alongside the rest of their security findings.
DefectDojo treats every pentest as an Engagement: a structured container for findings, evidence, notes, and status. Findings from manual testing live alongside findings from your 500+ supported security tools, deduplicated, prioritized, and tracked to remediation. When the retest comes around, reimport results and DefectDojo shows you exactly what was fixed and what wasn't.
Built for Both Sides of the Pentest
For Red Teams and Pentest Consultancies
- Engagement management. Every assessment gets its own Engagement with schedule, scope, and calendar export. Run concurrent engagements across clients without crossing streams.
- Faster reporting. Custom report generation with filters means the deliverable comes from the platform, not from a blank document.
- Consistent quality. Finding templates and structured fields keep every tester's output at the same standard.
For AppSec Teams Receiving Pentests
- One system of record. Third-party pentest results land in the same platform as your SAST, DAST, SCA, and cloud findings. One security posture, not a pile of PDFs.
- Scoped access for external testers. In DefectDojo Pro, create a child asset for the pentest and grant your external team access to only that scope. Your CI/CD results, internal testing, and historical data stay invisible to third parties.
- Remediation tracking. Push pentest findings to Jira or GitHub Issues, enforce SLAs, and report on time to remediate alongside every other source of security findings.
Why DefectDojo for Pen testing Reports
The Most Expensive Finding You Produce
A pentest finding is the most expensive finding you'll ever produce. It represents hours of skilled manual work. Treating it differently from scanner output, tracked in a spreadsheet or lost in a report, means your highest-value security data gets the worst operational treatment.
One System of Record, Manual and Automated
DefectDojo aggregates findings from pentests and 500+ security tools into a single system of record, then deduplicates, enriches, and prioritizes them so teams remediate real risk instead of drowning in noise. Your red team's chained exploit and your scanner's CVE both end up where they belong: in front of the people who fix them, with the context to fix them fast.
How Pentest Reports Work in DefectDojo
Scope the engagement
Create an Engagement for each pentest effort: like "Q1 External Pentest," or "Client Web App Assessment". Set the schedule, environment, and scope. Every finding, note, and file stays organized in one place.
Enter findings your way
Log manual findings directly with full detail: affected components, proof of exploitation, and recommended remediation. Import output from the tools your red team already runs, like Burp Suite, Nmap, Nessus, and Nuclei, through DefectDojo's parser library. Manual and automated findings coexist in the same Engagement.
Triage with real statuses
Mark findings as Verified, False Positive, Out of Scope, Risk Accepted, or Under Review. Add notes as you work, and keep internal commentary private: private notes never push to Jira, reports, or finding exports.
Ship the report
Generate customized reports directly from any Engagement, Test, or Product. Filter to exactly the findings that belong in the deliverable. No more copy-pasting screenshots into a template at 2 AM.
Verify the retest
Reimport results when it's time to retest. DefectDojo compares new data against existing findings, closes what's remediated, and flags what's still open. Remediation verification becomes a diff, not a treasure hunt.
Frequently asked questions
Can I manage third-party pentests in DefectDojo?
Yes. Create an Engagement for each external assessment and import the results. In DefectDojo Pro, you can also grant external pentest teams scoped access to a child asset so they see only their own engagement.
Does DefectDojo replace my pentest reporting tool?
DefectDojo generates customized, filterable reports directly from engagement data, so findings entered during testing become the deliverable. Many teams use it as their reporting workflow end to end.
Which red team tools does DefectDojo support?
DefectDojo parses output from 500+ security tools, including Burp Suite, Nessus, Nmap, and Nuclei, plus a Generic Findings Import format for anything else.
How does retest verification work?
Reimport the new results into the existing Test. DefectDojo compares against prior findings, closes remediated issues, and keeps unresolved findings open, giving you a clear before-and-after for the retest report.