Research Insights Volume 6: Common Issues with Environment Breakouts
Research Insights Volume 6: Common Issues with Environment Breakouts
Due to the rising trend in organisations implementing bring your own device (BYOD) and remote access working, IT departments are facing the ongoing risks of securing devices they neither own or control.
This has led to a rise in the number of breakout assessments being requested to test how secure the remote environments are. Organisations often put restrictions in place to stop users accessing certain functionality in order to lessen the attack surface. Environment breakout assessments attempt to bypass these restrictions.
We are seeing a rise in environment breakout assessments being done in other scenarios such as ATMs, internet kiosks and even vending machines.
In this paper we aim to highlight the common security issues we are seeing when performing environment breakouts.