Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Devices and appliances

Devices are core components in an IoT project. In this subsection, we are going to discover the hardware threats, and we will discuss the framework attacks in another point. Physical security is playing a huge role in information security. Physically unprotected devices are presenting a real threat to your architecture. Exposed appliances can be attacked easily. Thus, a black hat hacker could gather information about the device online, thanks to the publicly available datasheets and required information about the majority of used and well-known devices. A website such as https://wiki.openwrt.org helps users to know detailed information about a various number of devices, such as routers and gateways:

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