Technique

physical penetration testing

technique:physical_penetration_testing Also: physical access testing, physical assessments, physical infiltration, physical pen test, physical pen testing, physical pen tests, physical penetration test, physical red team operations, physical security testing, physicals, security audit

Authorized testing method involving attempts to gain physical access to buildings and facilities.

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• EP 40 Derived 99%

  Testing an organisation’s physical security by attempting to enter buildings and facilities as an attacker might.

  “physically break into buildings to test their security”

  “this physical penetration test”

• EP 41 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing method involving attempts to gain physical access to buildings and facilities.

  “I am a physical penetration tester and social engineer.”

  “I was introduced to the concept of penetration testing first and then my friend told me about physical penetration testing”

• EP 59 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing method involving attempts to gain physical access to facilities and evaluate security controls.

  “I am an offensive penetration tester who specializes in physical security”

  “a physical penetration test on the courthouses themselves”

• EP 66 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing method involving attempts to enter buildings or access protected physical assets.

  “he became a full-on penetration tester for an information security company”

  “I was asked to go and do a physical assessment against a very large government site”

• EP 90 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing of physical premises and security controls by attempting to gain access.

  “For this episode, we hear from a social engineer and physical penetration tester.”

  “I could start to call myself a physical penetration tester”

• EP 95 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing of physical security controls, buildings, access systems, and facilities.

  “Physical pen testing, red-teaming, regular old pen testing.”

• EP 125 Explicit 99%

  Penetration testing that evaluates physical access to facilities and office environments.

  “physical assessments or physical red team operations or physical pen tests”

  “we wanted to conduct a nation state style of an attack from a physical perspective”

• EP 130 Explicit 100%

  Authorized attempts to enter buildings or protected areas and assess physical security controls.

  “there’s physical penetration testers where they physically try to get into a building”

• EP 134 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing of buildings, physical access controls, people, and electronics to identify security weaknesses.

  “I am a physical penetration specialist.”

  “There are three things to test when testing a company’s security. You can test the physical building itself, you can test the people in the building, and you can test the electronics.”

• EP 166 Explicit 100%

  Authorized testing that attempts to enter buildings or facilities without relying on technical exploitation.

  “So, we’re just doing a physical pen test.”

  “My first pen test, where she tried to break into buildings”

• EP 179 Explicit 100%

  Security assessment technique involving attempts to gain unauthorised-seeming physical access to facilities and evaluate their security.

  “I’m an offensive penetration tester who specializes in physical security”

  “conduct the physical penetration test on the courthouses”

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Kyle USES physical penetration testing

Kyle and his coworkers perform physical penetration tests by breaking into buildings to test security.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Kyle EP 40 Details

“The point was to gain access to headquarters by way of anything we could do at any of the previous sites”

JekHyde USES physical penetration testing

JekHyde identifies herself as a physical penetration tester and performs physical penetration testing.

Explicit Confidence 99% · JekHyde EP 41 Details

“I am a physical penetration tester and social engineer.”

JekHyde and Carl physical penetration engagement INVOLVES physical penetration testing

The engagement was a permitted physical penetration test of a manufacturing facility.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 41 Details

“The objective is to break into this manufacturing plant”

Coalfire Systems USES physical penetration testing

Coalfire performs physical penetration tests for clients as part of security assessments.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 59 Details

“a financial institute called up Coalfire to ask for a physical penetration test on their branches”

Iowa courthouse penetration-test arrests INVOLVES physical penetration testing

The incident involved a contracted physical penetration test of Iowa Judicial Branch facilities.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 59 Details

“they’re specifically asking for a physical penetration test at five locations”

FC USES physical penetration testing

FC says he has performed physical assessments and later works as a physical penetration tester.

Explicit Confidence 99% · FC EP 66 Details

“I’ve done a lot of hacking, a lot of social engineering, physical assessments”

“he became a full-on penetration tester”

Jenny Radcliffe USES physical penetration testing

Jenny performs physical infiltration and penetration testing as professional security work.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 90 Details

“For this episode, we hear from a social engineer and physical penetration tester.”

“she’s done social engineering and physical infiltration, pen testing”

Brian Halbach USES physical penetration testing

Brian identifies physical penetration testing as one of his activities.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Brian Halbach EP 95 Details

“Physical pen testing, red-teaming, regular old pen testing.”

Jonathan Studebaker USES physical penetration testing

Jonathan says his work includes physical security testing.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Jonathan Studebaker EP 95 Details

“but also the physicals, the social engineering, phishing, stuff like that.”

Jeremiah Roe USES physical penetration testing

Jeremiah and his team conducted a physical penetration test against a satellite location.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jeremiah Roe EP 125 Details

“we wanted to take it upon ourselves to go ahead and conduct one towards this satellite location”

Jason Haddix USES physical penetration testing

Jason performed physical penetration tests, including attempts to enter buildings and server rooms.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 130 Details

“Jason did a few physical pen tests”

Deviant Ollam USES physical penetration testing

Deviant identifies himself as a physical penetration specialist and describes performing physical penetration testing.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Deviant Ollam EP 134 Details

“I am a physical penetration specialist.”

Maxie Reynolds USES physical penetration testing

Maxie performed physical penetration tests, including attempting to enter buildings and facilities without using computer access.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details

“So, we’re just doing a physical pen test. Would you like to be involved? I jumped at the chance.”

Justin Wynn USES physical penetration testing

Justin describes his work as offensive penetration testing specializing in physical security and physical exploits.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Justin Wynn EP 179 Details

“I am an offensive penetration tester who specializes in physical security”

Gary DeMercurio USES physical penetration testing

Gary says he has approximately nine years of experience conducting physical penetration testing.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Gary DeMercurio EP 179 Details

“I’ve got about nine years of experience of physical pen testing.”

Iowa courthouse penetration-testing arrest INVOLVES physical penetration testing

The incident involved a physical penetration test of Iowa courthouse facilities.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 179 Details

“they’re specifically asking for a physical penetration test at five locations”