## **Release Notes: April 2025**


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## **Presales Scoping Experience**

We’ve built a new presales scoping experience to streamline the process of planning a pentest program.

This makes it faster and simpler for prospective customers to define their program and understand the credits they’ll need to get started with Cobalt.

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## **Email Notification**

Staff will now receive an email notification when a DRA/SCR engagement is drafted.

This ensures real-time visibility for the team, allowing for a faster response and a smoother handoff for new engagements.


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## **Methodology Updates**

The Internal Network, Cloud Configuration Review, and Web methodologies have been updated with new brief questions and an updated coverage checklist.

These updates provide testers with clearer guidance, leading to more accurate and higher-quality test results.

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What's New

How to get started with Cobalt

Getting Started

Risk Advisories

Assets are what we pentest

Asset Types

Create an Asset

Assets

Pentests

Overview

Asset Details

Pentest Details

Scope & Test Period

Preparation

Create a Pentest

Pentest Process

Pentest States

Coverage Checklist

Pentest Expectations

Set Up an In-House Pentest

Complete an In-House Pentest (For Pentesters)

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Finding States

Severity Levels

Remediate Findings

Findings

Customize Your Report

Co-branded Reports

Contents of a Pentest Report

Reports

Engagements Overview

Digital Risk Assessment

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Insights

Planning

Cobalt Methodologies Overview

Web Methodologies

API Methodologies

External Network Methodologies

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Mobile Methodologies

Cloud Configuration Review Methodologies

Cloud Pentest Methodology

Desktop Methodologies

AI/LLM Methodologies

Digital Risk Assessment Methodology

Secure Code Review Methodologies

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Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM)

Attack Surface

DAST Scanner Overview

Best Practices

Integrations

Partial Scans: Reduced Scope

Scans

Sequence recorder

Targets

Target Authentication

Extra Hosts

Blackout Period

DAST Scanner

Account Overview

Account Settings

Password Best Practices

Sign In to Cobalt

Troubleshoot Sign-in Issues

User Account

Collaboration Overview

Collaborate on Pentests

Groups

Manage Pentest Collaborators

Manage Notifications

User Roles and Permissions

Collaboration

Organization Overview

Manage Users

Your Cobalt Contract

Configure SAML SSO

How to Configure SAML 2.0 for Cobalt 

SAML Migration: Update Your Configuration

SCIM Provisioning Setup Guide

Configure Organization Settings

Organization

Track Your Credits

Cobalt Credits

Cobalt PtaaS Tiers

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Cobalt Integrations Overview

Troubleshooting

Create Jira tickets for Findings

Send email notifications for Findings from Outlook

Create GitLab tickets for Findings

Create GitHub tickets for Findings

HTTP Connector

Import Assets from Google Sheets

Map Cobalt Pentest Finding Severity to Jira Issue Priority

Modify Jira Issue Summary to contain Pentest Title

Create Azure DevOps Work Item for Findings

Send MS Teams notifications for Findings

How to Guides

Connect your applications

Integration Builder

Synchronize Cobalt Severity Levels with Jira

Push Cobalt Findings to Jira

Jira Cloud Integration

Jira Data Center Integration

Troubleshoot Your Jira Integration

Switching to a New Jira Instance

Integrate Jira with Cobalt

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Webhooks

DefectDojo

Kenna Security

Vanta

Carried Over Findings

Create Test Finding

Cobalt API Overview

Create a Personal Cobalt API Token

Get an Organization Token

Revoke Your Personal Cobalt API Tokens

Create or Modify an Asset

Import Findings to Google Sheets

Cobalt API

Glossary

Guide

Cobalt Product Documentation

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