Physical Penetration Testing
Test your physical security controls and access restrictions
What this engagement covers
The service
Cybersecurity is only as strong as your physical security. Our physical penetration testing assesses your organization's ability to prevent unauthorized physical access to facilities, data centers, and sensitive areas.
What we test
We test physical access controls, security personnel effectiveness, badge systems, mantrap effectiveness, visitor management, tailgating susceptibility, lock security, surveillance systems, and social engineering resistance.
Scoping & Assessment Depth
Black Box Assessment
Zero-KnowledgeSimulates an external adversary targeting Physical Penetration Testing with no internal credentials, source code, or architecture documentation. Assesses perimeter exposure, unauthenticated attack paths, and edge resilience.
Gray Box Assessment (Recommended)
CredentialedSimulates an authenticated user, tenant, or insider threat within Physical Penetration Testing. We evaluate role segregation, authorization boundaries, privilege escalation, and business logic flaws across user tiers.
White Box / Source-Assisted
Full-KnowledgeConducted with direct access to architecture schematics, configuration files, and API/code documentation. Eliminates blind spots and provides exhaustive coverage of security mechanisms governing Physical Penetration Testing.
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Vectors
Tailgating Vulnerabilities
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Tailgating Vulnerabilities across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Inadequate Visitor Management
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Inadequate Visitor Management across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Weak Badge Access Controls
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Weak Badge Access Controls across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Poor Security Guard Awareness
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Poor Security Guard Awareness across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Unlocked Sensitive Areas
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Unlocked Sensitive Areas across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Ineffective Surveillance Coverage
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Ineffective Surveillance Coverage across your Physical Penetration Testing environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
How we run it
Our team attempts to gain unauthorized access to your facilities using real-world attack techniques including tailgating, badge cloning, lock picking, social engineering, and insider threat simulation. All testing is coordinated with your security team and documented comprehensively.
Reconnaissance and target identification
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting reconnaissance and target identification across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Access control system assessment
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting access control system assessment across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Tailgating and piggybacking attempts
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting tailgating and piggybacking attempts across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Badge cloning and duplication
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting badge cloning and duplication across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Lock picking and bypass techniques
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting lock picking and bypass techniques across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Social engineering of staff and security
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting social engineering of staff and security across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Insider threat simulation
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting insider threat simulation across your physical penetration testing deployment.
Sensitive area infiltration
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting sensitive area infiltration across your physical penetration testing deployment.
What you receive
Findings land in your tracker as you go, not only in a PDF at the end. Retest is in scope, not a change order.
- Physical security assessment report
- Successful breach documentation with photo evidence
- Security control effectiveness evaluation
- Social engineering vulnerability analysis
- Badge and access control system findings
- Surveillance system gap analysis
- Security awareness assessment
- Physical security improvement roadmap
What we usually find
The issues this engagement surfaces most often. Yours will differ, but this is the shape of it.
Who this is for
Auditor-Ready Compliance Crosswalk
| Framework | Control Section | Testing Evidence & Report Deliverable |
|---|---|---|
| NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 | CA-8, RA-5, SC-7 | Rigorous penetration testing and technical vulnerability assessment supporting federal compliance and continuous monitoring. |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | Control A.8.8 & A.8.20 | Management of technical vulnerabilities and network security verification through independent technical assessments. |
| PCI DSS v4.0 | Requirement 11.4 & 11.4.3 | Adversary-driven external and internal penetration testing with application-layer validation and vulnerability remediation verification. |
Findings are mapped to NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA Physical Security, so the report drops into an audit package rather than needing to be translated first. If you need the readiness work behind one of those, that is a separate engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers on scoping, methodology, compliance validation, and deliverables.
Our Physical Penetration Testing service combines deep manual testing with automated verification. We cover: Physical security assessment report, Successful breach documentation with photo evidence, Security control effectiveness evaluation, Social engineering vulnerability analysis, Badge and access control system findings. Every engagement includes reproducible proof-of-concept exploits, developer-ready remediation guidance, and a free retest.
Yes. Findings are directly mapped to NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA Physical Security control requirements. The resulting report is auditor-ready and formatted for immediate submission to SOC 2 CPAs, PCI QSAs, and enterprise vendor risk assessment teams.
Yes. Every Lorikeet Security engagement includes free retesting within 30 to 60 days to validate that your remediation patches successfully resolve the identified vulnerabilities before your final report is issued.
Typical active testing turnaround is 1-2 weeks, with critical findings reported immediately via your Talon portal so your engineering team can begin remediation without waiting for the final PDF.
Pricing starts from $10,000. We scope the engagement in one call based on your environment's surface area, user roles, and complexity, providing a transparent, fixed-price quote with no hidden change orders.
Scope it in one call
Tell us what is in scope and we come back with a fixed price and a start date. No discovery-call maze, no hourly estimate that moves.
