Physical Access Assessment (Social Engineering)

Test Your Employees, Physical Measures, and Processes Under Realistic Conditions

Social engineering is the art of deception – Criminals purposely manipulate your employees to obtain confidential information or gain unauthorized access to sensitive areas such as server rooms, labs, offices, or manufacturing facilities. Instead of going for technical vulnerabilities, they exploit human weaknesses. Often, all it takes to bypass security measures is a friendly smile, a convincing lie, or a fake identity. As IT infrastructures have become increasingly well protected from the internet or inaccessible from the outside, criminals are shifting their focus to social engineering and covert on-site attacks if typical remote cyberattacks fail.

As part of our Physical Access Assessment, a specific form of a physical security assessment, we carry out realistic tests in which we use social engineering tactics such as tailgating, piggybacking, and modern technology to thoroughly test your security measures. We physically penetrate sensitive areas of your organization and test how well your access control systems and physical measures protect against unauthorized access. This helps to uncover vulnerabilities before they are exploited by malicious actors.

Our Physical Access Assessment Approach

Our Physical Access Assessment service simulates a complete attack cycle as it would occur in the real world and combines red teaming with social engineering. This enables us to cover all aspects of security in the context of a vulnerability assessment:

Physical Access Assessment Approach
Figure 1: Physical Access Assessment – Process

Benefits of Oneconsult’s Physical Access Assessment

Holistic Security Assessment

The effectiveness of your security measures depends on how well technical, personnel and structural safeguards work together. Our Physical Access Assessment service provides a thorough review of these elements and evaluates your organization’s overall level of security.

Security at All Levels

To cover all key aspects of security, you can combine the Physical Access Assessment with our technical Red Teaming service. This combination enables us to assess whether it is possible for us to spread within your internal network after we have infiltrated it with malicious hardware.

Verifying Implementation of Security Measures in Practice

A strong security strategy is only as good as its implementation in day-to-day work. Our Physical Access Assessment shows whether your employees are consistently complying with your security policies.

Tests Tailored to Your Needs

Our Physical Access Assessments are not “off the shelf”. We develop customized scenarios that are specifically tailored to your business risks and potential threats.

Variety of Methods and Tactics

Our Physical Access Assessment service uses various social engineering tactics, including tailgating, piggybacking, priming, and elicitation. In addition, advanced technologies such as voice emulation, deepfake technology, and the manipulation of access control systems are applied to test your defense strategies.

24/7 Security Audit

Our service is not limited to regular business hours. If you wish, we can conduct social engineering tests at night, on weekends, or on holidays to identify vulnerabilities when your organization is most vulnerable.

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Companies around the world rely on our expertise every day. This is confirmed not only by our long-standing customers but also by our statistics.
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Putting Your Company to the Test – in a Realistic Way

Our Physical Access Assessment service helps you identify your organization’s human, technical, and process-related vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Our experts develop customized attack scenarios based on your specific risk analysis profile. This allows you to make targeted improvements to your security measures and ensure that your employees and processes perform effectively in practice.

Protect Your Organization From Social Engineering Attacks

Test your employees, technical precautions, and processes in realistic scenarios. Our Physical Access Assessment service will show you whether your security measures are working in practice and how to address any weaknesses.

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