Just for the fun of it, I am going to do a series of blogs talking about some of the physical penetration tests I have done. War stories, if you will. Of course we will keep the clients anonymous throughout and hopefully they have fixed these items by now anyway, as it has been some […]
As many of you are most likely aware of by this point, two Coalfire employees are facing criminal trespassing charges in Iowa. The two employees were conducting a physical penetration test against a judicial branch building and the Dallas County courthouse. As part of their assessment, they gained access to the courthouse and intentionally tripped […]
As with every type of penetration test we perform, our engineers are experienced and know how to balance the goal of giving you a realistic view of your vulnerabilities with the need to avoid business disruptions. However, just like other types of tests, as good as we may be, there can occasionally be problems that […]
A physical penetration test emulates an attacker trying to physically break into your organization and steal sensitive information or gain access to the internal network. If you haven’t already seen it, check out our blog on the top 3 ways we gain access to your environment during a physical penetration test. While you are at it, you […]
Before you hire someone to physically break into your organization, it is probably a good idea to understand what steps they are going to take. In this blog, we will review our physical penetration testing methodology, which is the basic outline for any physical penetration test we perform. If you haven’t already, it might be […]
Could an attacker physically gain access to your office and attack your network from inside? Could they gather sensitive information from employee desks or conference rooms? Could they gain access to your server room? A physical penetration test is designed to answer all of these questions over the course of roughly 3 days onsite at […]
In this blog we will cover the top three ways that we break into a building when performing a physical penetration test. For more information on physical penetration tests, and the questions they answer, start here. This will include some realistic physical penetration test examples you can expect if you were to be tested, such […]
If there is one type of assessment that is not like the others, it is the physical penetration test. A physical penetration tests assesses the risk to your organization of an attacker physically breaking in. This blog will explore the physical penetration test, what questions it answers, what type of clients typically seek physical penetration […]
