A more standardized, actionable security report is coming

We’re making an important update to how security findings are organized and presented in Beagle Security.

As part of broader platform improvements, we’re introducing a new standardized taxonomy for security findings , along with a more structured report format that provides greater context around every finding.

The updated report is designed to make findings easier to understand, reproduce, verify, prioritize, and track through remediation.

The change is coming soon. Here’s what you can expect.

A more structured approach to security findings

Security findings are only useful when teams can quickly understand what happened, reproduce the issue, determine its impact, and take action to fix it.

The new report format brings more of this information together in one place.

Some finding categories you’re familiar with may be renamed, consolidated, or reorganized as part of the new taxonomy. At the same time, the report structure itself is being improved to provide more detail around individual findings and their occurrences.

What’s changing in the new report?

The updated report introduces several key improvements.

1. Clear steps to reproduce

Each finding can include the exact actions required to recreate the issue , helping security and development teams reproduce findings without having to interpret incomplete information.

2. Expected vs. actual results

Reports will distinguish between the expected secure behavior and the actual behavior observed during testing.

This provides clearer context around why a response was identified as a security issue.

3. Affected endpoints and vulnerable targets

Findings can include the specific endpoints, HTTP methods, and status codes associated with the issue.

This makes it easier to identify exactly where remediation is required.

4. Pre-conditions

Where exploitation depends on specific conditions, the report will capture the relevant pre-conditions that must be satisfied for the issue to occur.

5. Parameters and payloads

Reports can provide the exact parameters and payloads submitted during testing , along with the resulting output.

This gives teams the information they need to understand how the application responded to the test input.

6. Proof of concept

Findings can include a proof of concept, such as curl commands, HTML code, scripts, or other relevant examples, with supporting inputs where applicable.

This provides a practical way for authorized teams to validate the finding and reproduce the observed behavior.

7. Verification criteria

The updated report also provides verification criteria to explain how exploitation can be confirmed.

This helps teams distinguish between simply reproducing a request and confirming that the security issue was actually triggered.

8. CVSS scoring

CVSS scores are being added alongside existing Impact, Likelihood, and OWASP Criticality information.

This gives teams another established framework for assessing the severity of a finding and prioritizing remediation.

The biggest change: occurrence grouping

One of the most significant changes in the new report is how repeated occurrences of the same finding are organized.

Previously, multiple occurrences could make reports harder to navigate when the same underlying issue appeared across different locations.

With the new structure, individual occurrence IDs are grouped under a parent finding.

This creates a clearer relationship between the security issue itself and the places where it was observed.

Instead of treating every occurrence as a completely separate finding, the report can present:

Parent finding

↳ Occurrence 1

↳ Occurrence 2

↳ Occurrence 3

↳ Occurrence 4

This makes it easier to understand the scope of an issue without losing the details of each individual occurrence.

The result is a report that’s both higher-level when you need an overview and detailed when you need to investigate a specific occurrence.

What is happening to existing reports?

The introduction of the new report format will not change reports you’ve already generated.

Reports created before the changeover will remain exactly as they are. They will not be retroactively reorganized, regrouped, or reclassified using the new format.

You’ll continue to be able to access and download your historical reports from your Beagle Security account.

The new taxonomy and report structure will apply to reports generated from the changeover date onward.

The applicable taxonomy will also be stated on reports generated after the change takes effect.

What do you need to do?

Nothing for now.

Your existing reports remain available, and you can continue using Beagle Security as usual.

When the new reporting structure goes live, the transition between the existing and new finding categories will be clearly represented within the report itself.

Better context. Clearer findings. Easier remediation.

The new reporting structure is designed around a simple goal: give teams the context they need to move from finding to fix faster.

With more detailed reproduction information, affected targets, payloads, proof of concepts, verification criteria, scoring, issue-tracking context, and a clearer occurrence structure, the updated reports provide a more complete picture of every security finding.

Combined with a standardized taxonomy, this creates a more consistent reporting experience as Beagle Security continues to evolve.

More details will be shared as we get closer to launch.

Written by

Rejah Rehim

Co-founder, Director

Rejah brings more than 12 years of industry experience in Information Technology. He is a fervent security enthusiast and serves as a Project Leader at OWASP Foundation, and Commander (Hon.) at Kerala Police. He has authored two books titled “Effective Python Penetration Testing” and “Python Penetration Testing Cookbook” and is the creator of 9 Mozilla add-ons.

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