Physical Penetration Testing
Physical penetration tests evaluate a company’s physical security posture. Our engineers will attempt to gain physical access to sensitive locations such as data centers, server rooms, and network closets through all means possible. Our toolkit includes but is not limited to drone reconnaissance, lockpicking, social engineering, sensor bypassing, and RFID/badge cloning.
What is Physical Penetration Testing?
Nobody can deny the importance of these aspects of cybersecurity; however, they ignore the threat of a criminal gaining access to a building or room that contains the machines and data the company needs to function and maintain their competitive edge.
In contrast, physical penetration testing uncovers real-world vulnerabilities in the physical barriers meant to protect sensitive information and expensive hardware. Pen testers actually create simulated attacks that mimic the actions that criminals might take to gain access to sensitive equipment or information. Some of the tested barriers might include locks, windows, intrusion alarms, cameras, sensors, or even security guards and other employees.
For example, businesses may have decent physical security against such outside threats as lock picking; however, at least one-third of companies suffer data breaches or other issues because of insider-initiated crimes. In other words, the problem starts with employees who gain access to data centers with their credentials but then use that access for criminal or malicious reasons.
In other cases, bad actors may convince well-intentioned employees to let them in by pretending to be another employee. They might even gain access to a meeting room and simply pick up credentials or information left discarded in the trash.
Once pentesters uncover issues, they can make suggestions to strengthen physical security controls before criminals or accidents can breach them. They can also suggest security systems that monitor all activity to improve incident response in the case of an inside job.
Benefits of Physical Penetration Testing
Businesses realize two main benefits from physical pen testing:
- Expose weak physical barriers: This kind of testing will expose security vulnerabilities and produce a remediation plan that will improve an organization’s overall security posture. Companies will know their weaknesses to strengthen their protection.
- Understand the risks: These simulated attacks against physical barriers will also provide an estimate of the kind of damage that any security weaknesses leave businesses open to. When companies know the degree of damage they could face, they can prioritize remediation actions.
Falconer Security’s dedicated physical penetration team is highly qualified, possesses advanced certifications, and is equipped with the labs, tools, and methodologies necessary to consistently deliver quality, accurate, detailed, and meaningful results.
Falconer Security's Approach
Falconer Security leverages industry standard methodologies to ensure a thorough and comprehensive test is conducted under safe and controlled conditions. Falconer Security’s reports are content rich, regularly stand the scrutiny of regulatory requirements, exceed expectations of auditors, and frequently receive the praise of our customers.
Physical Penetration Testing Methodology
- Reconnaissance and Mapping
- Determine if Criminals Could Pick Locks
- Look for Traditional Ways to Steal Information
- Check Network Jacks
- Prioritize Server Security
- Check Wireless Connections
- Consider Physical Hazard Protection and Backups
- Check the Trash
- Look for Tailgating and Other Offline Social Engineering Opportunities
- Consider Hybrid Threats
Many organizations are satisfied and merry to justify spending a major chunk of their finances or allocating resources to protect their networks from cyber attacks. Nevertheless, physical security is usually being ignored that can prove to be an entry point for malicious actors.
Via performing physical penetration testing, companies can expose all the loopholes in the physical security of their environment and can be able to demonstrate how easy it is for an attacker to gain physical access to the system simultaneously.
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