Can This Simple Trick Outwit Your Smart Security?

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The Exploit: Penetration Testing Insights From The Frontlines
Posted on June 5, 2020
Canned air attack

Written by Brad Herring

Armed with nothing more than an ordinary can of cool, compressed air, a hacker can gain entry to a key-card-only access facility in just 19 seconds. Skeptical? See for yourself in this video.

Raxis CyberSecurity Tip: How Hackers Use Compressed Air to Breach Physical Security

Fortunately, the guy in this video is me. Our company, Raxis, is a team of ethical hackers and penetration testing experts who evaluate and identify solutions that help businesses safeguard their sensitive data, from healthcare to finance to innovative product and app development.  

Some folks forget that physical security is the first line of defense for a cyberattack.  If someone can get inside your business, they can find your servers, and in seconds they can steal, sell, and destroy data you’ve invested thousands in protecting.  

Our cybersecurity specialists have studied for years to find hidden, unscrupulous techniques that the world’s most sophisticated hackers use. Solving these puzzles and preventing cyberattacks is what we love to do – but often we find security vulnerabilities long before we get to delve deep.  

Finding a failure in your company’s security isn’t something to fear; it’s something to fix. And you can only fix something when you know it is broken.  

Follow us on this blog or social media and we’ll share more ways that hackers can get in — and how we can help you keep them out. 

Brad Herring

Brad Herring

Brad joined Raxis in 2016. He enjoys helping customers find solutions that work for them to achieve their specific testing objectives. When he’s not helping customers fortify defenses, Brad enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, fishing and shooting. (Yes, that’s fishing – not phishing!)

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