Successful mitigation of today’s security threats requires an approach that is both on the offensive and on the defensive. Here, we give our take on how to approach and handle specific security challenges, as well as our reaction to some of the latest industry topics.
Plus: 10 Tips to Keep Your Organization Out of the Red A financial institution enlisted our services to perform a Red Team assessment – an effective approach to simulate a real-world threat actor attempting to compromise an organization from the outside in. Using an email phishing campaign combined with a physical breach, DirectDefense consultants uncovered… Read more »
How We Used Vishing to Attack an Internal Corporate Network We are back with the third and final write-up of our social engineering blog series to add to previous posts about an email phishing campaign and target phishing scenarios using social media. This post is all about a vishing call! Vishing or Voice Phishing is… Read more »
How We Identified a Critical Situation for Our Client This is the story of a routine internal network penetration test that led to the identification of a critical security issue. As part of the normal process, I was exploring the target IPs to discover services, and I could not find anything interesting. In this type… Read more »
03.31.22Navigating the 5 Stages of Grief Following an Incident Response Event Are you a victim of a data breach and are you feeling signs of grief? You’re not alone. As an incident response professional, I have met many different types of corporate staff, from the IT staff to the C-suite. Unfortunately, it was probably on… Read more »
It’s time to rethink your password policy to prevent modern password attacks. If you think your company’s policy of requiring passwords to have a minimum length of eight characters, in addition to other complexity requirements, is sufficient to effectively prevent modern password attacks, think again. Our client, a global corporation with business units in more… Read more »
03.23.21You may recall that last year we were able to compromise a major corporate network during a physical penetration test by gaining access to the building under the guise of someone interviewing for a landscaping job. Once inside – due to a lack of network segmentation and other controls – we were able to access… Read more »
