Tag: physical penetration test

How DirectDefense Got a Free, Round Trip Ticket to an Airline’s Internal Network During a Physical Pen Test

By: Bethany Kozal 02.14.23

Using Simulated Security Attacks to Test Network and Physical Vulnerabilities DirectDefense was asked by an airline to conduct security testing through simulated security attacks to help identify vulnerabilities that could put the airline’s data and operations at risk. As part of the engagement, DirectDefense: Spoiler Alert: Through effective tactics, like tailgating, we were able to… Read more »

Tales From the Road: When the City Library Can Access the SCADA Network, It’s Time to Rebuild

By: Bethany Kozal 10.06.22

How a cybersecurity roadmap can lead you on the road to recovery. A large municipality had a hunch that their cybersecurity needed to be improved (the fact that they fall prey to the regular business email compromised (BEC) scams and have lost money, as a result, might have been a dead giveaway), so they hired a… Read more »

Tales From the Road: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat of Your Physical Security?

By: Bethany Kozal 07.27.22

How we “stole” our client’s Tesla during a physical penetration test. Protecting Private Internal Data Needs to Start with Enacting Strong External Security We talk a lot about how to protect your organization from being the target of an attack to your internal network by creating strong passwords, keeping network hardware under lock and key,… Read more »