Re: [PEN-TEST] Physical pen testing

[Eric Budke <budke () BUDKE COM>]

Build walls physically separating the spaces all the way up to the real
ceiling. In some ways this could be a smoke/fire protection as well, as
there is less space for it to sneak into yours.


At 03:31 PM 8/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
> John Cronin wrote:
> > Another overlooked hole is those dropped/suspended ceilings so popular
> > in office building environments.  Often the walls don't extend above
> > them, just lift the ceiling tile and go over the wall.  This is extremely
> > common, and easily exploited.  Further, there if often some accessible
> > office/room next to the target, offering a concealed place from which
> > to work.
>
> How would you protect those areas?
>
> One of the other offices in our building got hit because of people doing
> that, and it still makes me nervous that our offices are setup that
> way.  I don't know enough about physical protection measures to know
> what to put up there - heck, barbed wire?  Radar sentry guns? :-)
>
> SeanMike
>
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