Advanced Security Programs
Facilities Security Testing
Uncover hidden threats across facility environments to validate security effectiveness, resilience, and preparedness against real-world adversaries.
Facilities Security Assurance
Modern facilities operate as complex, interconnected environments where physical infrastructure, network systems, cloud services, hardware devices, and human processes intersect. Adversaries seek to exploit the relationships between these elements, moving between physical access, digital systems, and human workflows to create security and operational risk.
OnDefend facilities security testing combines elite adversary expertise with proprietary technology to assess the full facility ecosystem as a single, integrated environment. This approach enables comprehensive testing across physical, digital, and human domains, uncovering hidden exposure, misconfigurations, and control gaps that are not visible when systems are evaluated independently. The result is a realistic view of facility security posture, resilience, and readiness against real-world threats.
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Facilities Testing Capabilities
Adversary-Driven Facilities Testing
We emulate real-world adversaries operating across physical, technical, and human vectors to identify how attackers gain initial access, establish persistence, and move laterally through facilities. Testing reflects realistic attacker behavior rather than isolated control validation.
Network and Infrastructure Penetration Testing
We assess facility networks across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-connected environments to identify segmentation failures, exposed services, identity weaknesses, and misconfigurations that enable lateral movement between operational, corporate, and cloud systems.
Physical Security and Access Control Testing
We evaluate physical access controls, building entry points, badge systems, surveillance, and facility monitoring to identify weaknesses that enable unauthorized access, tailgating, credential misuse, or physical-to-digital attack chaining.
Hardware and Embedded Systems Testing
We test facility hardware, embedded systems, and connected devices – including access control panels, sensors, cameras, controllers, and OT components to uncover firmware weaknesses, unauthorized communications, insecure configurations, and supply chain risk.
Social Engineering and Human Risk Testing
We simulate social engineering attacks, including phishing, pretexting, and physical social engineering, to evaluate how human behavior can be exploited to bypass technical and physical controls.
Cloud and Hybrid Facility Systems Testing
We assess cloud services and hybrid platforms supporting facility operations, identity systems, monitoring tools, and management interfaces to uncover misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and attack paths that bridge cloud and on-site environments.
Risks Uncovered
OnDefend facilities security testing identifies real-world risks adversaries can exploit to compromise complex environments and validates how effectively prevention, detection, and response controls perform under realistic conditions, including:
Cross-Domain Exposure
Cross-Domain Exposure
Risk introduced by the interaction between physical infrastructure, networks, cloud services, hardware, and human workflows that adversaries can exploit to move across domains.
Segmentation and Trust Boundary Failures
Segmentation and Trust Boundary Failures
Weak or implicit trust relationships between facility systems that allow unauthorized access to expand beyond its initial entry point, bypassing preventative controls.
Access Control and Identity Weaknesses
Access Control and Identity Weaknesses
Misconfigured physical and digital access controls, credentials, and identity systems that enable unauthorized access, privilege misuse, or delayed detection.
Hardware, Firmware, and Embedded Device Risk
Hardware, Firmware, and Embedded Device Risk
Insecure or misconfigured facility hardware, embedded systems, and connected devices (i.e. access control hardware or camera surveillance systems) that introduce hidden exposure and evade traditional prevention and monitoring tools.
Human Exploitation and Social Engineering Risk
Human Exploitation and Social Engineering Risk
Gaps in training, process, or awareness that allow adversaries to bypass preventative controls and test the effectiveness of detection and response procedures.
Physical-to-Digital Compromise Scenarios
Physical-to-Digital Compromise Scenarios
Conditions where physical access, facility systems, or human actions can be leveraged to impact digital infrastructure and operational environments.
Detection and Monitoring Gaps
Detection and Monitoring Gaps
Failures in security monitoring, alerting, or telemetry that prevent timely identification of adversary activity across facility systems.
Response and Containment Weaknesses
Response and Containment Weaknesses
Gaps in incident response readiness, coordination, or execution that delay containment, enable persistence, or increase operational impact.
Giving You The Competitive Advantage
OnDefend delivers a decisive advantage over adversaries by combining elite hardware security expertise, embedded systems knowledge, and intelligence-driven validation to expose real-world device, firmware, and supply chain risk.
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Read ArticleFacility Security Testing FAQs
What is facilities security testing?
Facilities security testing evaluates the security of physical facilities as integrated environments, including physical access controls, networks, hardware devices, cloud systems, and human processes. It focuses on how adversaries exploit interactions between these layers rather than testing systems in isolation.
How is facilities security testing different from traditional penetration testing?
Traditional penetration testing typically focuses on individual systems such as networks or applications. Facilities security testing is holistic and adversary-driven, assessing how physical access, technical systems, and human behavior interact to create real-world risk across an entire facility.
What types of facilities benefit from this type of testing?
Facilities security testing is valuable for organizations operating corporate campuses, data centers, manufacturing plants, healthcare facilities, research labs, logistics hubs, critical infrastructure, and government or public sector sites.
What systems are included in a facilities security assessment?
Assessments can include physical access controls, surveillance systems, building management systems, corporate and operational networks, cloud-connected platforms, hardware and embedded devices, identity systems, and human workflows that support facility operations.
Does facilities security testing include social engineering and human risk?
Yes. Facilities security testing evaluates how human behavior and processes can be exploited through social engineering, physical pretexting, or procedural gaps, and how effectively detection and response teams identify and handle these scenarios.
How do you validate prevention, detection, and response controls?
Testing simulates realistic adversary behavior to evaluate whether preventative controls stop attacks, whether monitoring and detection tools generate meaningful alerts, and whether response teams can identify, contain, and remediate activity in a timely manner.
Can facilities security testing be performed without disrupting operations?
Yes. Engagements are carefully scoped and coordinated to minimize operational impact, with testing methods and timing aligned to business and facility constraints.
How often should facilities security testing be performed?
Facilities should be tested regularly and whenever significant changes occur, such as new buildings, system upgrades, access changes, or technology deployments. Continuous or recurring testing provides the most accurate view of evolving risk.
How are findings reported?
Findings are delivered through clear, prioritized reporting that includes technical detail for security teams and risk-based insights for leadership, showing how issues impact facility security and operational resilience.
Does facilities security testing support regulatory or compliance requirements?
Yes. Testing can support regulatory, governance, and risk management efforts by validating that facility security controls operate effectively in real-world conditions, beyond checklist-based compliance.
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