Gray Hat Hacking The Ethical Hackers Handbook, 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 5Physical Penetration Attacks

Placing yourself or a member of your team inside the target organization during a penetration test can be an expeditious way to access the data network infrastructure from behind the border controls. It is often far easier to achieve your objective from inside the building than from outside. Physically penetrating your target organization for the purposes of obtaining sensitive information might not seem immediately obvious. In fact, physical access is increasingly a common factor in cybercrime, especially in the theft of personal private information for the purposes of identity theft.

Breaching the perimeter controls of any organization will vary in difficulty depending on the sophistication of the systems ...