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Articles Categorized as Penetration Testing

  • Raxis CTO, Brian Tant

    What is Least Privilege Access?

    By Bonnie Smyre Raxis CTO Brian Tant explains least privilege access and why it is essential to corporate cybersecurity. June 26, 2020
  • The following is a reenactment of a typical physical security assessment performed by a professional Raxis security engineer

    Here’s How Hackers Can Get Through Your Doors and Onto Your Network

    By Brian Tant Just a guy who left something at work and had to run back in? But that’s not my office, that’s not my badge, and, at sunset, my day is just getting started. June 12, 2020
  • Canned air attack

    Can This Simple Trick Outwit Your Smart Security?

    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. June 5, 2020
  • Woman with padlocks

    Helping Nonprofits and Other Growing Businesses Understand Security Risks

    By Bonnie Smyre Raxis COO Bonnie Smyre was honored to be invited to write a guest blog post for NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, about understanding security risks. August 27, 2018
  • Top Five Actions NOT to Take When Your Pentest Results are High Risk

    Top Five Actions NOT to Take When Your Pentest Results are High Risk

    By Brian Tant Raxis’ Brian Tant explains the worst thing to do with negative pentest results is to ignore them & why taking action thwarts hackers & increases your security. June 19, 2018
  • Raxis API Tool

    Raxis API Tool

    By Bonnie Smyre Raxis Lead Developer, Adam Fernandez, has developed a tool to use for testing JSON-based REST APIs, and we’re sharing this tool on GitHub to help API developers test their own code during the SDLC process and to prepare for third-party API penetration tests. May 4, 2018