when blackbox pentesting results in no vulnerabilities found or the pentester is caught early on

We all heard about success stories related to physical pentests but what about those that didn't go too well? from a customer's perspective and from the pentester's personal mindset.

lets talk about the different scenarios. A pentester is hired to do a onsite pentest. he is given a new position in an office and assigned a desktop. here are the scenarios:

1. first day on duty; wasn't able to run any recon or enumeration and got questioned why he was …

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