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Build a bank pentest scoping brief

Describe the banking operation you need to protect and the boundary the test should prove. A useful brief separates channel access, payment approval and actual release authority.

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Set the boundaries.
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Keep it high level. Do not include live account details, cardholder data or credentials. Releasing real funds is not implied by a payment-testing enquiry.

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01 The decision you need

Assessment objective

Primary assurance purpose

If the requirement is statutory DORA TLPT, identify it explicitly. A conventional bank pentest report is not interchangeable with that process.

02 The assessment boundary

Choose the areas you want to discuss. Final coverage is agreed during scoping.

Customer web and mobile channelsBanking APIs and staff rolesPayment workflows and maker-checker controlsNetwork and privileged identitiesSupplier access and recovery management

Proposed environment

Operating constraints (optional)

For example: settlement disabled, synthetic customer accounts, release blackout periods or supplier approvals.

03 Timing and permissions

Indicative timing

Supplier permissions

NDA preference

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Bank penetration testing — initial scoping brief
DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION · not authorisation to test

Assessment objective: To be agreed
Primary context: To be agreed
Environment: To be agreed
Indicative timing: To be agreed
Supplier permissions: To be agreed
NDA preference: To be agreed
Assessment areas: To be agreed
Operating constraints: To be discussed

Questions to resolve:
- Assessment areas
- Assessment objective
- Primary context
- Environment
- Indicative timing
- Supplier permissions
- NDA preference

Next step: agree scope, named owners, safeguards, deliverables and commercial terms.
Do not include credentials, patient/customer records or confidential technical evidence.

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WHAT TO INCLUDE / Bank penetration testing

Scope choices that change the test.

Assessment area	What to describe	What useful evidence answers
Digital channels	List applications, API families and customer/staff roles.	Evidence that account ownership and delegated permissions hold across interfaces.
Payment workflows	Identify draft, beneficiary, approval and release boundaries.	Independent read-back and audit attribution for seeded transactions.
Internal trust paths	Map workload identities, privileged access and supplier routes.	The authority reached at each step, including blocked routes and supplied assistance.

BEFORE THE SCOPING CALL

Bring the right context.

A list of channels, roles and payment states
Synthetic customers and seeded transactions
Permissions for shared payment and supplier services
Named owners for stopping, reconciling and cleaning up tests

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THE NEXT DECISION

Make payment and access boundaries explicit

Agree the permitted transactions, independent controls and stop conditions before comparing proposals or scheduling active work.

Coverage, environments, role combinations, supplier coordination and retesting affect effort. A brief helps expose those assumptions; it is not a price or delivery commitment.

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Method and source references

Read the scope guide · Evaluate a provider · How we publish our guidance