Re:How I Socially Engineer Myself into High Security Facilities
by stale2002 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:10PM
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Yes, that's what would happen. People would not take a report as seriously as if someone actually went and broke into the system.
You can call it mismanagement, but humans aren't perfect. Humans are emotional being who, in many cases (but not all) will not take a threat seriously unless someone goes and does it.
It is not even necessarily mismanagement either. It could just be ignorance. IE, someone can talk all they want about hypothetical vulnerabilities, but if you aren't a security expert, you have no idea how realistic those threats are, no matter what the pen tester tells you.
Who knows, maybe the pen tester really is being paranoid.
It is much easier to actually convince someone that something is a problem by actually exploiting it. That's just an obvious fact.
And it seems like the pen tester in question agrees with me. Because she didn't right a report. She instead broke into the system, and what do you know it worked in their goal of convincing the company that their was a problem.
If you will noticez the company in question really did think that everything was secure. The pen tester really did need to do something extrodinary in order to convince them. So she did, and it worked.
You can call it mismanagement, but humans aren't perfect. Humans are emotional being who, in many cases (but not all) will not take a threat seriously unless someone goes and does it.
It is not even necessarily mismanagement either. It could just be ignorance. IE, someone can talk all they want about hypothetical vulnerabilities, but if you aren't a security expert, you have no idea how realistic those threats are, no matter what the pen tester tells you.
Who knows, maybe the pen tester really is being paranoid.
It is much easier to actually convince someone that something is a problem by actually exploiting it. That's just an obvious fact.
And it seems like the pen tester in question agrees with me. Because she didn't right a report. She instead broke into the system, and what do you know it worked in their goal of convincing the company that their was a problem.
If you will noticez the company in question really did think that everything was secure. The pen tester really did need to do something extrodinary in order to convince them. So she did, and it worked.