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As any security consultant will know, the more fun you have on an engagement (see part 1, part 2 and part 3 for the back story), the longer the report will be afterwards and the more important the executive and technical summaries will be in tying all the observations together in an actionable fashi…

So how did the team get on in our War Game exercise?  In order to complete the War Game exercise (the setup for which can be found in part 1 and part 2 of this series), our Security Advisory Services team determined that the following attack scenarios would need to be simulated: The plan A broad ta…

In part 1 of this series of posts, we covered what constituted a War Game and how we defined the various attack scenarios. In this part, we will cover our Cisco Security Advisory Services team used these scenarios to develop real world threat models and establish other parameters of the engagement.…

Recently, in what was an interesting change to the usual technical and risk/compliance focused consultancy, our Security Advisory Services carried out a War Games exercise – which is similar in style to a “red team” engagement. This short series of posts aims to describe the experi…

Have you ever wondered about how the everyday information available on your network could compromise your entire organisation? I lead the Cisco Security Advisory Services team in EMEAR.  We recently performed a “Red Team” exercise in which our client set us the objective of attempting to gain access…