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Cyver Core is a Pentest Management platform allowing pentesters to deliver Pentest-as-a-Service. Our blog covers features, industry topics, and updates.

Pentest Reporting with Cyver Core: Introducing Pentest Narratives 

Pentest Reporting with Cyver Core: Introducing Pentest Narratives 

Cyver Core is first and foremost a pentest management and collaboration platform. That means we deliver tooling to manage and streamline pentesting, across all aspects of project, client, and workflow management and automation. Our goal is to look for ways to create...

Cyver Core: Feature Wrap-up 2023

Cyver Core: Feature Wrap-up 2023

2023 was a big year for Cyver Core and we’re proud to share that we released over 75 new features, platform updates, and improvements over the year! Those range from big to small, and include everything from new roles inside the system to improvements to our report...

Continuous Projects with Cyver Core

Continuous Projects with Cyver Core

Cyver Core has always offered significant project management tooling for pentesters. Our project templates allow you to seamlessly set up and run a pentest based on an existing scope, methodology, and goals, so setting up a new pentest is as simple as clicking a...

Cyver Core at CyberSec Netherlands 

Cyver Core at CyberSec Netherlands 

On November 1 and 2, Cyver Core was at CyberSec Netherlands in the Royal Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This cybersecurity event was attended by over 2,100 industry experts from the Netherlands and other countries. Cyver was proud to be present, to share our...

Feature Highlight: Master Reports  

Feature Highlight: Master Reports  

Cyver Core’s pentest report template allows you to quickly set up and generate pentest reports based on a pre-defined layout with set sections, graphics, tokens to generate content, and more. We’ve put in effort to make those templates as flexible and as customizable...

Pentest Runbooks: Managing Work in Cyver Core 

Pentest Runbooks: Managing Work in Cyver Core 

For many pentesters, work management is loose, informal, and often not done at all. You keep everything in your head because you know what has to happen, when, and why. At the same time, that informal work management makes it hard to scale, hard to collaborate inside...

How do Pentest Teams Use Cyver Core: Use Cases from Our Clients 

How do Pentest Teams Use Cyver Core: Use Cases from Our Clients 

Cyver Core is a full-service pentest collaboration tool with everything you need to manage pentests, collaborate on remediation, deliver pentest-as-a-service, and streamline pentest reporting. But, how do our clients actually use the platform?  We interviewed...

Red Team Reporting and Management with Cyver Core 

Red Team Reporting and Management with Cyver Core 

Red teaming exercises are increasingly in demand as organizations shift their attention towards understanding cybersecurity risks. Tools like Cyver Core allow you to manage those exercises in an environment built around the needs of cybersecurity project management,...

Top 7 Pentest Tools from our Pentester 

Top 7 Pentest Tools from our Pentester 

Cyver Core was designed by pentesters for pentesters. So, when we wanted to share a list of the top pentest tools, we obviously sat down with our chief pentester and co-founder Mike Terhaar to discuss his favorite tools for web application pentests.  This list of...

Top 10 Premium Pentest Tools

Top 10 Premium Pentest Tools

Building out your pentest toolkit means trying different tools, seeing what works for you or your organization, and putting together a system and workflow that best suits your needs. That can mean trialing and trying hundreds of tools. And, while many pentest tools...

Top 10 Open Source and Free Pentest Tools

Top 10 Open Source and Free Pentest Tools

There are hundreds of pentest tools on the market and most of them are open source. That can make choosing the right tooling a long process of trial and error. These top 10 free open source tools are a good place to start if you’re looking to build your toolkit or are...

Ultimate Pentest Tools List (300+)

Ultimate Pentest Tools List (300+)

The following include a list of pentest tools available across the web. Many are free and even open source, others are premium tools and require a monthly or yearly subscription. We’ll note when pentest tools aren’t free. We interviewed Cyver pentester Mike Terhaar...

How Findings-as-Tickets Improve Client Security 

How Findings-as-Tickets Improve Client Security 

Changing the Way You Deliver Pentests  Pentesting is shifting more and more away from functioning to support compliance and more towards functioning to support the ongoing security of web apps and infrastructure. With Secure by Design and DevOps premises in...

Why Use Pentest Report Generation 

Why Use Pentest Report Generation 

The pentest report is still the culmination of work for many pentesters. While “just” a document, it’s what many organizations pay for. And, while more and more organizations are moving away from using pentest reports to remediate vulnerabilities and towards using...

Using Pentest Compliance Frameworks with Cyver Core 

Using Pentest Compliance Frameworks with Cyver Core 

While more and more organizations are using pentests to ensure cybersecurity, it’s still very common to test for compliance reasons. When that happens, pentesters must align the pentest report with the compliance norm, usually mapping vulnerability findings to the...

Cyver Core Achieves SOC2 Compliance 

Cyver Core Achieves SOC2 Compliance 

Security is important to Cyver Core, to its customers, and to their clients. From day 1, Cyver has invested in secure-by-design standards and followed industry best practices to ensure we offer every reasonable cybersecurity precaution to our clients.  Now, we’ve...

Cyver Core Magic Features: Auto-Fill, Auto-Merge, and Auto-Report

Cyver Core Magic Features: Auto-Fill, Auto-Merge, and Auto-Report

For many pentesters, the work of investigation, hacking, and scanning sites is only part of the job of a pentest. After, you still have to collate data into findings, share information from vulnerability libraries, and add everything together into a pentest report....

Top 10 Hacks 2022

Top 10 Hacks 2022

More than 4,100 publicly disclosed hacks and breaches happened in 2022, leading to roughly 22 billion records being exposed or stolen. That’s up significantly from 2021, where some 1,243 major security incidents were reported. Of course, those numbers reflect public...