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Platform detail
Methodology v4.2
The adversarial assessment standard: evidence rules, scope categories, phase definitions, and rationale.
Findings, reports, dashboards, exports, integrations, and retests all read from the same normalized record.
Pencheff favors repeatable checks, then uses AI for triage, enrichment, orchestration, and remediation where it adds signal.
Coverage
What does Methodology v4.2 test?
- The adversarial assessment standard: evidence rules, scope categories, phase definitions, and rationale.
- This page is part of Platform under Methodology.
- It links back into the broader a complete adversarial security platform experience.
- Workspace-aware target registration, scan ownership, and reusable scope settings.
- Unified finding records across runtime, source, dependency, infrastructure, AI, and manual evidence.
- Severity, reachability, exploitability, confidence, affected asset, and remediation metadata.
- Dashboards for status, risk, open work, rechecks, and audit-ready reporting.
- Exports for executive readers, engineers, compliance teams, and downstream systems.
Execution
How does Pencheff run this?
- Register the target or choose an existing workspace asset.
- Select a profile that controls depth, safety, time budget, and evidence requirements.
- Run deterministic checks first, then enrich high-signal leads with agentic analysis where useful.
- Deduplicate findings, preserve raw evidence, and attach remediation guidance.
- Route the output into dashboards, reports, integrations, schedules, and retest loops.
Evidence
What evidence does this produce?
- Finding title, severity, affected component, CWE or category, confidence, and status.
- Reproduction notes, scanner provenance, request or trace evidence where applicable.
- Remediation guidance written for the observed behavior rather than a generic checklist.
- Compliance mappings, owner state, comments, and re-examination history.
Controls
How is this kept safe to run?
- Authorized testing boundaries remain explicit at target creation.
- Credentials and secrets are handled as scoped assessment inputs.
- Operator-facing output separates confirmed issues from informational context.
- Every item is designed to be traceable from summary to source evidence.
Documentation
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References
Authoritative sources
FAQ
Common questions
- What is Pencheff methodology v4.2?
- v4.2 is the current assessment framework governing how Pencheff runs the Adversarial Cycle — reconnaissance, surface mapping, probing, verification, and exploit chaining — with standardised evidence formats and compliance mappings.
- How does Pencheff reduce false positives?
- Every candidate finding is re-fired with crafted payloads before promotion. Findings that cannot be reproduced are discarded. The result is a verified findings stream with documented request and response evidence.
- What changed in methodology v4.2?
- v4.2 tightened exploit chaining procedures, added OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage, and aligned compliance mapping to PCI-DSS 4.0 and ISO 27001:2022.
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