Built to solve one problem, now your pentest tool creates new ones: feature requests pile up, integrations break, and your dev team has better things to build.
Average maintenance burden:
Bug fixes, feature requests, integration updates, tech debt. That's $2,000-$4,000/month in engineering salary for a tool that doesn't generate revenue.
What that time comes from:
Internal tools don’t just “run” - they pull cycles from either core internal initiatives or billable client work. Either way, you pay twice: building and maintaining.
When it breaks, who fixes it?
"If I don't know the solution, then the project doesn't get delivered or I have to resort to manual reporting." No support team, no documentation, just panic.
"At every job I've been to, consultants have hoarded reports. That makes you a giant target."
In homegrown reporting workflows, teams often start by solving “generate the report.” If safe reuse (a content library) and lifecycle controls (retention, access boundaries, audit trails) aren’t built in early, people default to the easiest workaround: keeping old reports so they can copy proven descriptions and findings.
This creates two major risks:
"The IssueLibrary allows us to take all the useful, reusable stuff out of those old reports, but delete the client data when we're done. There's no reason to retain customer data anymore, which is a huge benefit because if you lose all the security assessments, you're done."
Security Team Lead
Mid-size InfoSec Company, Canada
Got scanner output into Word documents. Python libraries made it easy. Looked like a quick win.
The "simple" tool required custom evidence display, finding description lookup, edge case handling, and endless refinements. The fun 10% became a thankless 90%.
17 years of working with hundreds of security teams, means that we've already built a solutions for the issues many teams don't realise exist yet.
"Should we be funding the development of this tool or should we be focussing our resource on testing and making money?"
"It's a fairly obvious answer there."
"If it saves me five hours a year, it's worth it. That's the bar Dradis needed to hit."
"I said, 'This can't be that hard,' and sure enough, there's a Python library. You can get halfway there."
But then: "How do I nicely display evidence for all my hosts? How do I do custom finding description lookup? You're going down this rabbit hole..."
The fun part takes 2 weeks. The remaining 90% takes months - and never really ends.
Your engineers are talented. They can build a pentest reporting tool. The first version will probably be great.
But three years from now, who's going to be excited about fixing bugs in your internal tool? Who's going to update 50+ integrations every time Nessus changes its output format?
Internal tools become legacy code that nobody wants to touch. Maintenance becomes a burden that falls on whoever can't say no.
Your engineers could be building products that generate revenue, give you competitive advantage, make customers happy, and look great on their portfolio.
A pentest reporting tool does none of those things. Give them problems worth solving. Let them build things that move your business forward. Let Dradis handle the commodity infrastructure so your team can work on your unique value proposition.
Dradis gives us consistent reports and saves us time on reporting. We can always count on the Dradis team for report format changes.
We review your current setup and migration needs
Extract your existing findings, templates, and workflows
We help configure Dradis to match your processes
Get your team up to speed quickly with guided onboarding
Most "custom" features fall into a few categories we already handle: custom report templates, specific integrations, or unique approval workflows. During the assessment call, we'll review what you've built and show you how Dradis handles it.
Dradis is built on an open-source foundation, giving you unparalleled flexibility and control.
You can extend and customize Dradis to fit your specific workflow. This extensibility ensures that Dradis grows with your organization and adapts to your evolving needs. No vendor lock risk.
Nothing is more frustrating than being on the hook for software that didn't solve your problem. That's why Dradis Pro has a hassle-free 30-day money back guarantee.
Give Dradis Professional a try for 30 days, and if you aren't saving time delivering security assessments, we will refund you. If you're not absolutely thrilled with our software, we don't deserve your money.
Oh, and those 30 days start when you are up and running with Dradis - not from your purchase date.
Yes. Deploy Dradis on-prem as a virtual appliance with one of the officially supported environments.
We understand that teams may need to deploy in the cloud or outside our officially supported platforms. Because of this, we offer an officially supported AWS AMI, an officially supported Azure image, and several unofficial deployment guides for other popular cloud environments.
New updates to Dradis Pro are released regularly, and these are made available without charge to our users.
We've done this hundreds of times, and we're pretty good at making sure onboarding to Dradis goes smoothly. Here's what you get:
Most teams are productive within 1-2 weeks, but remember: your 30-day money-back guarantee doesn't start until you're actually using Dradis for real projects.
See our complete 30-day implementation plan for the full details on how we get you up and running.
See how Dradis can streamline your team’s reporting without disrupting your current workflow. No hard pitch, just real answers.
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