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Home > Offense > 2020 Attack Vectors Report – Internal Pentesting

2020 Attack Vectors Report – Internal Pentesting

October 30, 2020 By Ken Smith

Our team has collected two years worth of internal penetration testing data to put together a white paper covering our most frequent footholds that lead to full network compromises.

The data clearly shows that passwords and patching continue to be a significant problem. Nearly half of all compromises achieved by RSM’s testing team between 2018 and 2020 were a direct result of poor password policies and weak password selection. MS17-010 and the BlueKeep vulnerability also led to a notable number of successful attack scenarios.

Additional details and analysis are available within the white paper which can be found here.

Ken Smith

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