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Managed Offensive Security Desk & Pentest Reporting Operations

Stop Burning Billable Offensive Hours On CVSS Scoring, Report Formatting & Retest Admin.

Free your OSCP, CREST, and red team engineers to exploit privilege escalations, chain business logic flaws, and crack Active Directory. Our managed VAs structure vulnerability writeups in Plextrac & Ghostwriter, deduplicate automated scan outputs (Nessus/Burp), sanitize client PoC evidence, and coordinate retesting dockets—supervised by a Free Dedicated Project Manager starting at just $6/hr.

100%
RoE & Scoping Accuracy
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PII / Token Leaks in Reports
$0
Project Manager Fee

OffSec Operations Desk

Plextrac / CVSS / Scope / Retest

ISO 27001 Ready

Report Staging & Template Assembly

Importing raw notes into Plextrac, Ghostwriter, or Markdown templates; formatting CVSS v3.1/v4.0 vectors; and standardizing CWE/OWASP remediation guidance.

Evidence Sanitization & Redaction QA

Redacting sensitive authorization tokens, production customer PII, internal IP addresses, and database connection strings from Proof-of-Concept captures.

Scoping Intake & Retest Scheduling

Logging IP ranges/CIDRs, verifying cloud test authorization letters, coordinating blackbox/greybox test windows, and docketing 30-day remediation retests.

OffSec VA from $6 / hr View Transparent Plans →
100% Offensive Security & AppSec Toolchain

Proficient in Industry-Standard Reporting Portals, Scanners & Vulnerability Trackers

Zero training runway. Our assistants understand the security terminology, evidence capture standards, and ticketing workflows utilized by leading offensive security consultancies.

Plextrac
Plextrac Report Automation
Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter Engagement Mgmt
Burp
Burp Suite Pro Export Parsing
Nessus
Tenable Nessus Finding Triage
Qualys
Qualys / OpenVAS Deduplication
Dradis
Dradis Pro Deliverable QA
CVSS
CVSS v3.1 / v4.0 Vector Scoring
OSINT
Shodan / Censys Scope Recon Audits
Jira
Jira & ServiceNow Remediation Tickets
Docs
Git / Pandoc / LaTeX Custom PDF Output
Nmap
Port Scan Logs Asset Inventory Tables
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Your Portal / API Integrated 24 Hrs
Operational Responsibilities

What Your Penetration Testing Virtual Assistant Executes Every Day

From CVSS vector validation and scan parsing to executive summary drafting, evidence redaction, and retest coordination.

Vulnerability Writeup Formatting & CVSS Vector Audit

Writing descriptions for SQL injection, IDOR, or SSRF findings consumes expensive consultant time. Your VA populates verified finding templates, maps CWE/OWASP Top 10 IDs, verifies CVSS v3.1/v4.0 base score metrics (Attack Vector, Privileges Required, User Interaction), and inserts tailored remediation advice.

  • ✓ Validates CVSS v3.1/v4.0 vectors against consultant severity notes
  • ✓ Attaches CWE references, OWASP categories, and remediation links
  • ✓ Maintains centralized finding writeup libraries in Plextrac or Ghostwriter

Automated Scan Parsing & False-Positive Deduplication

Nessus, Qualys, and Burp Suite XML/JSON dumps contain hundreds of duplicate low-severity and informational alerts. Your VA merges scanner exports, groups findings by IP/FQDN subnet, weeds out acknowledged false positives, and builds clean asset vulnerability matrices for the consultant's review.

  • ✓ Parses raw Nessus .nessus, Burp XML, and Nmap .gnmap outputs
  • ✓ Consolidates SSL/TLS cipher and missing header findings into summary tables
  • ✓ Removes out-of-scope hosts and flags host alive discrepancies

PoC Screenshot Redaction & OPSEC Evidence QA

Submitting raw HTTP requests with live session cookies, customer passwords, or internal tester IP addresses breaches OPSEC and client trust. Your assistant performs rigorous redaction passes on all terminal logs, HTTP burp history snippets, and screenshots before client presentation.

  • ✓ Redacts live JWTs, Bearer tokens, API keys, and client database rows
  • ✓ Standardizes terminal code blocks with syntax highlighting & font styling
  • ✓ Ensures PoC step-by-step reproduction instructions are legible and sequential

Scoping Intake Questionnaires & RoE Documentation

Testing wrong IP blocks or exceeding client maintenance windows results in severe liability. Your VA manages the scoping pipeline: distributing pre-engagement questionnaires, verifying AWS/Azure customer penetration testing notification forms, and compiling formal Rules of Engagement (RoE) dossiers.

  • ✓ Audits CIDR blocks, apex domains, and API endpoints against scope sheets
  • ✓ Tracks emergency SOC contact lists and operational escalation ladders
  • ✓ Confirms test credentials and 2FA bypass mechanism delivery before kickoff

Retesting Dockets, Jira Tickets & Deliverable Delivery

Offensive firms offer 30 to 60-day complimentary retests, but tracking patched vulnerabilities across dozens of active clients causes chaos. Your VA manages the retest calendar, logs client developer questions, exports Jira/ServiceNow CSV tickets, and generates retest delta letters for executive sign-off.

  • ✓ Tracks client 30/60/90-day remediation windows and retest cutoffs
  • ✓ Exports findings directly into Jira, GitHub Issues, or Linear tickets
  • ✓ Produces post-retest Attestation of Assessment certificates

Engagement Invoicing, Milestone Tracking & SOC 2 Binders

Running a security boutique involves tracking signed statements of work (SOWs), deposit milestones, and non-disclosure records. Your VA compiles audit-ready SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 customer binders, drafts milestone invoices via QuickBooks, and distributes secure encrypted report download links.

  • ✓ Issues milestone invoices upon delivery of Draft and Final report versions
  • ✓ Coordinates password-protected 7z/ZIP or encrypted client portal distribution
  • ✓ Archives engagement data in accordance with contractual data retention timelines
Zero Management Overhead

How Sagedoer Works: Hands-Off Offensive Operations Management

Maintain complete tactical focus over your exploitation frameworks and client debriefs while our managed back-office team handles report staging, scan deduplication, and scheduling under dedicated project manager supervision.

Phase 01 01

Submit Requirements

Share your offensive practice setup: preferred reporting platform (Plextrac, Ghostwriter, Word, Markdown), monthly assessment volume, scanner outputs, and documentation bottlenecks.

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Phase 02 02

Finalise the Deal

Your dedicated Project Manager reviews your report styling guidelines, NDA and OPSEC handling protocols, Plextrac/portal access rights, and establishes tailored SOPs for deliverable turnaround.

Zero Onboarding Fees
Phase 03 03

Expert Execution

Your VA stages finding drafts, cleans raw scan files, redacts sensitive tokens, and arranges retest schedules. Your dedicated PM audits deliverables for formatting and grammar before lead consultant review.

Free Quality Supervision
Phase 04 04

Pay Only for Output

You are billed strictly for logged working hours dedicated to your offensive security practice. Project manager oversight, quality spot-checks, and cross-trained backup support are 100% free.

Pure Output Billing
Market Comparison

Traditional Freelance Portals vs. The Sagedoer Advantage

Why cybersecurity consultancies and ethical hacking boutique founders choose Sagedoer's managed back-office team over unvetted gig platforms.

Evaluation Metric Traditional Freelance Platforms The Smart Choice: Sagedoer
Platform & Management Fees ✕ Hidden Markups
Up to 40% in hidden platform markups, bidding commissions, and monthly account maintenance fees.
✓ 0% Hidden Fees
Pay strictly for hours worked. Dedicated Project Manager included at absolutely no extra charge.
Daily Team Management ✕ Founder Burnout
You must personally supervise daily work, police attendance, write detailed SOPs, and chase missing files.
✓ Single Point of Contact
Dedicated Project Manager delegates, audits deliverable formatting, and enforces quality SOPs on your behalf.
Confidentiality & OPSEC Security ✕ Critical Risk
Unvetted freelance contractors on personal machines with direct exposure to client zero-days and vulnerability data.
✓ Strictly Governed
Enforceable corporate NDAs, role-based access to staging workspaces, and strict data confidentiality protocols.
Hiring & Deployment Speed ✕ Weeks of Sifting
Exhausting cycles of posting job ads, reviewing resumes, and testing candidates on basic security literacy.
✓ Instant Delegation
Instant delegation. We immediately assign the right offensive operations assistant ready in 24 hours.
Billing & Invoicing ✕ Fragmented Invoices
Multiple confusing contractor invoices across various payment gateways, escrow fees, and currency conversions.
✓ Consolidated Invoicing
Simple, unified, centralised USD invoicing with clear itemized reports of all hours worked.
Turnover & Assessment Continuity ✕ Client Delivery Misses
If a freelancer disappears on draft report delivery day, lead consultants are forced to pull all-nighters.
✓ Zero-Downtime Backup
Seamless internal replacements managed by your PM with zero re-training or deliverable disruption.
Predictable & Transparent

Simple, Value-Packed Pricing

Zero setup fees. Zero platform tax. No lock-in contracts. Pay strictly for hours of productive reporting support, scan parsing, and retest coordination with full project manager oversight included.

Part-Time 20 Hours Per Week
$7 / hour

Est. $560 USD / Month (4 Weeks)

  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
MAXIMUM VALUE
Full-Time 40 Hours Per Week
$6 / hour

Est. $960 USD / Month (4 Weeks)

  • Pay only for hours of pure work
  • Dedicated Project Manager included
  • Free management supervision
  • Zero setup or onboarding fees
  • No monthly membership charges
Scale up during heavy Q4 SOC 2 compliance rushes or scale down between audit seasons with 7 days' notice. Pure hourly billing transparency.
★★★★★ 4.9 / 5.0 Average Rating From Penetration Testing Firm Founders & Red Team Leads

Trusted by Offensive Security Consultancies, AppSec Boutiques & Red Team Agencies

See how cybersecurity practice leaders eliminated deliverable backlog, automated report formatting, and protected billable consulting margins.

★★★★★

"Our senior testers were billing $250/hr but spending 8 to 10 hours per assessment formatting Word documents, inserting CVSS vectors, and organizing Burp screenshots. Our Sagedoer VA stages everything in Plextrac now. Delivery turnaround dropped from 5 days to 24 hours."

TG
Trevor Gallagher, CISSP
Managing Director, RedSpire Security (Denver, CO)
★★★★★

"We run external infrastructure and cloud assessments. Parsing Nessus and Nmap output tables used to be mind-numbing administrative overhead. Sagedoer deduplicates our scanner findings, formats clean tables, and ensures all client IP ranges match the RoE. Extraordinary accuracy."

AK
Alistair Kerr
Founder & Principal Tester, Fortis Red Team (London, UK)
★★★★★

"Tracking client retests was our biggest operational headache. Clients would ask for remediation checks 45 days after the report with zero context. Our Sagedoer VA tracks the retest docket, maps developer Jira tickets, and prepares delta letters. The free Project Manager keeps everything running like clockwork."

NV
Natasha Vance
VP of Security Services, Apex Threat Labs (Austin, TX)
★★★★★

"OPSEC and screenshot redaction were my biggest concerns when outsourcing. Sagedoer signed our strict NDAs and works directly inside our secure Markdown repo. They catch unredacted authorization tokens and internal IPs before the client ever sees them. Unbeatable value at $6/hr."

DM
Derrick Morales, OSCP
Lead Offensive Consultant, BreachProof Labs (Seattle, WA)
★★★★★

"Our senior testers were billing $250/hr but spending 8 to 10 hours per assessment formatting Word documents, inserting CVSS vectors, and organizing Burp screenshots. Our Sagedoer VA stages everything in Plextrac now. Delivery turnaround dropped from 5 days to 24 hours."

TG
Trevor Gallagher, CISSP
Managing Director, RedSpire Security (Denver, CO)
★★★★★

"We run external infrastructure and cloud assessments. Parsing Nessus and Nmap output tables used to be mind-numbing administrative overhead. Sagedoer deduplicates our scanner findings, formats clean tables, and ensures all client IP ranges match the RoE. Extraordinary accuracy."

AK
Alistair Kerr
Founder & Principal Tester, Fortis Red Team (London, UK)
★★★★★

"Tracking client retests was our biggest operational headache. Clients would ask for remediation checks 45 days after the report with zero context. Our Sagedoer VA tracks the retest docket, maps developer Jira tickets, and prepares delta letters. The free Project Manager keeps everything running like clockwork."

NV
Natasha Vance
VP of Security Services, Apex Threat Labs (Austin, TX)
★★★★★

"OPSEC and screenshot redaction were my biggest concerns when outsourcing. Sagedoer signed our strict NDAs and works directly inside our secure Markdown repo. They catch unredacted authorization tokens and internal IPs before the client ever sees them. Unbeatable value at $6/hr."

DM
Derrick Morales, OSCP
Lead Offensive Consultant, BreachProof Labs (Seattle, WA)
Direct Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Real questions offensive security boutique founders, penetration testing leads, and red team operators ask about data confidentiality, OPSEC handling, and technical competency.

Security and non-disclosure are foundational. Every Sagedoer team member and project manager signs an enforceable corporate non-disclosure agreement prior to deployment. We can operate strictly inside your self-hosted infrastructure (e.g., your private Plextrac instance, Dradis server, Git repo, or VPN-secured cloud environment) with least-privilege role assignments. Your assistant works solely on formatted text, deduplicated scan tables, and sanitized findings—never holding local unencrypted copies of raw client vulnerability databases.
No. Our virtual assistants specialize in offensive security operations, technical deliverable assembly, and practice management. This includes populating reporting templates, parsing Nessus/Burp XML outputs, calculating CVSS scores, sanitizing evidence screenshots, verifying scoping ranges, and docketing retests. This offloads the 30% to 40% of non-billable documentation overhead, allowing your credentialed consultants (OSCP, OSCE, CREST) to spend 100% of their time on manual exploitation, logic testing, and client debriefs.
Our VAs are comfortable with all standard offensive deliverable stacks: Plextrac, Ghostwriter, Dradis Framework, Serpico, custom Git/Markdown pipelines (with Pandoc and LaTeX compile scripts), as well as traditional Microsoft Word and Google Docs engagement templates. They adhere to your brand guides, font styles, and client severity classifications.
Your assistant conducts a systematic OPSEC redaction checklist: masking authorization headers, Bearer tokens, active session cookies, customer personally identifiable information (PII), database credentials, internal RFC 1918 IPs, and private tester infrastructure details. Screenshots are cleanly cropped, highlighted with numbered annotation badges, and matched directly to step-by-step reproduction instructions.
Your Dedicated Project Manager is your single point of contact. They monitor deliverable turnarounds against assessment deadlines, perform secondary quality checks for spelling, layout, and table formatting, oversee daily time allocations, and guarantee seamless backup coverage if your assigned assistant is ever unavailable—at zero additional charge.
None. Zero setup fees, zero platform markups, and zero long-term contracts. You pay strictly for productive hours worked: $7/hr for Part-Time (20 hrs/wk) or $6/hr for Full-Time (40 hrs/wk). You can scale hours up or down based on your assessment pipeline with 7 days' notice.
Direct OffSec Operations Desk

Scale Your Offensive Practice Without Reporting Drag.

Discuss your current assessment volume, reporting toolchain, and documentation backlog with our team. We match you with a vetted offensive operations VA and dedicated project manager within 24 hours.

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