Infiltration Strategies Used by Consultancies in Financial Sector

Cyber security consultancy Context IS shares some of the techniques it has used to inflitrate financial institutions in 'red team' exercises One service that some security consultancies provide is called 'red teaming'. This simply means trying to infiltrate a client's IT systems through any means possible, in order to highlight security vulnerabilities that may not have identified.

UK security firm Context Information Services has been commissioned by a number of major financial institutions to attack their systems. Last week, it presented some of the techniques it has used successfully - and how the targets could have thwarted them.