Compliance frameworks have specific expectations about penetration testing. A QSA wants to see PCI-DSS 11.4 evidence formatted a certain way. A SOC 2 auditor needs your testing tied back to the trust services criteria. A CMMC assessor needs your work mapped to control families.
Every Sentinel Point Systems engagement is designed to satisfy auditor expectations and produce the documentation evidence your compliance program actually needs. Below is how we align with the frameworks most of our clients work under, and how the deliverable changes to match each one.
Requirement 11.4 mandates annual external and internal penetration testing for organizations storing, processing, or transmitting cardholder data. We deliver against 11.4.1 (methodology), 11.4.2 (internal pentest), 11.4.3 (external pentest), and 11.4.5 (segmentation validation).
Report formatted for QSA review, methodology statement, segmentation evidence, retest documentation.
45 CFR § 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) requires risk analysis, and § 164.308(a)(8) requires periodic technical evaluation. Penetration testing is the foundational evidence for both, and is referenced throughout NIST 800-66 (HHS implementation guidance).
Pentest report with risk analysis context, mapping of findings to HIPAA Security Rule sections.
SOC 2 auditors increasingly expect to see external penetration testing as evidence supporting the Common Criteria around system security and change management. Our reports are formatted with the auditor-ready evidence package in mind.
Pentest report, methodology statement, retest evidence, attestation-ready summary.
Annex A control 8.8 (Management of technical vulnerabilities) and A.8.29 (Security testing in development and acceptance) are commonly evidenced via penetration testing. Our engagements align with ISO/IEC 29147 and 27034 guidance for vulnerability handling.
Findings mapped to Annex A controls, retest evidence, registry-friendly summary.
Our methodology directly supports NIST 800-53 control families CA-8 (Penetration Testing) and RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning), and NIST 800-171 requirements 3.11.2 and 3.12.1 (relevant to DFARS / CMMC).
Pentest report with control mapping, methodology aligned with NIST 800-115.
Penetration testing supports CMMC Level 2 practices CA.L2-3.12.1 (Security Assessments) and RA.L2-3.11.2 (Vulnerability Scan). Our reports are sized and structured to align with CMMC assessment expectations for OSCs and contractors.
Findings mapped to CMMC practices, retest documentation, assessment-ready evidence.
Passing an audit and being secure are not the same thing. A compliance-driven pentest can satisfy a checkbox while missing what a threat actor would actually do. Our engagements are scoped to satisfy your audit obligations and surface the realistic attack paths a threat actor would exploit. The audit story comes with engineering-grade evidence.
If your driver is a specific audit deadline, tell us. We will scope to meet it. If your driver is real risk reduction, tell us. We will scope for that. Both can coexist in a single engagement.
Tell us the framework and the deadline. We will scope an engagement that delivers what your auditor needs and what your security program actually deserves.