Executive-Ready Reporting Is Here: What’s New in the Synack Platform

A pentest report has to do three jobs at once. It needs to give a CISO a summary the board will understand, give an engineer the line-level detail to fix what’s broken, and give a compliance lead the filtered evidence an auditor will accept. Most reporting tools force all three readers into the same static PDF.

Recent Gartner research found that while 93% of board members agree cyber risk threatens shareholder value, most CISOs still present board reports structured around cybersecurity functions rather than business outcomes.

We built the new reporting experience in the Synack Platform to address that issue. These capabilities allow teams to scope reports down to the asset level, automatically write an executive summary, and generate a live preview. It’s our way of aligning the flow of verified findings from the platform to the people who act on them.

This post walks through what’s new in our platform, how the AI-generated executive summary works, and how to configure and share a report.

Want to see these new capabilities in action? Check out our interactive demo.

What’s New in Synack’s Reporting Experience?

The biggest change is asset-level scoping. Reports used to run at the full-engagement level, but now you can generate a report scoped to a specific asset, or a subset of assets, within an assessment. This way, you can segment reporting by business unit, product line or stakeholder without exporting and re-cutting a larger report by hand.

You can also generate a report for an assessment or test that returned zero findings. This satisfies auditors and customers who need proof that a system was tested and came back clean, not just a record of what was found.

Two smaller additions round this out: a custom report footer, and a free-text field for context. The free-text field matters more than it sounds. Scope and findings tell you what was tested and what was found. They don’t tell you why a particular result matters to this engagement, this quarter, or this stakeholder. Now you can add that narrative directly into the report instead of explaining it in a follow-up email.

How Does the AI-Generated Executive Summary Work?

The AI-generated executive summary reads the test that was run, the findings that came out of it, and any relevant strengths, and turns that into a short synopsis of what was tested, what was found, and what to do next. It’s built for the reader who isn’t going to open every finding. This way, a CISO or board member can view exploitable risk and recommended actions at a glance.

As you build the report, a sample version updates in real time with demo data based on the sections you’ve chosen to include or exclude. You see the finished shape of the report as you’re still configuring it, so you’re not generating a draft, reviewing it, and starting over.

How Do You Scope and Configure a Report?

Configuration starts with assessment selection. Choose one or more assessments, and the report pulls in every in-scope asset from those assessments. From there, you decide which of those assets actually belong in this report and exclude the rest. That’s the asset-level segmentation in practice: one engagement, multiple reports, each scoped to a different audience.

Next comes filtering. You can set a custom time range, pull in specific tests within the assessment, or include the assessment’s entire testing history. Vulnerability data filters by severity and status, and you have granular control over which finding details make it into the report. On the visualization side, you can toggle charts like vulnerability distribution by severity or category, burndown, remediation and patch efficacy, so the report shows trends, not just a point-in-time list.

What Else Can You Include, and How Do You Share the Finished Report?

Beyond core findings, you can pull in mission test data, SVs associated with the assessments, and a section on Synack’s methodology and the Synack Red Team, useful when a report is going to a reader who needs to understand how the testing was actually done, not just what it turned up.

Once a report is configured the way you want it, generating it is a single action. The report service compiles it, and you get a link to view it inside the Synack portal. To share it outside the portal, use your browser’s print-to-PDF function to export a shareable file. Configurations you like can also be saved as templates, so the next report for that asset or team starts from a known baseline instead of from scratch.

Conclusion

Synack has spent 13 years building an AI + human model for continuous security validation, combining Sara AI Pentesting‘s ability to discover and test for vulnerabilities at machine speed with the Synack Red Team‘s validation of real-world exploitability and judgment. The new reporting experience extends that model beyond the finding, giving organizations a consistent way to communicate verified risk across security, engineering and executive audiences.

See the new workflow in action in Synack’s self-guided Executive-Ready Pentest Reporting demo.