The organization has contacted the auditor through an intermediary who is familiar with
tech and can follow SAFETAG instructions, or the organization has a tech person among
their employees.
This scenario is comparable to a situation where the auditor is on site. In this case, the
auditor will instruct the intermediary or the tech person in the organization to follow the
instructions in the exercise on Network mapping and on User device assessment.
Scenario 1
The organization has someone among their employees who is ready to follow simple
instructions, including opening a terminal and pasting commands we will provide them.
In this scenario, the auditor will send simple instructions to the auditee, so as to be able
to access the organization's network through a reverse SSH tunnel and assess the LAN
and single devices from there. To run the computer used within the organization's
network to establish the tunnel, a UNIX system is needed. This will be a Linux live
distribution or a Mac computer.
Scenario 2
In this scenario, no one at the organization is ready to apply complex instructions.
Instead of relying on an individual, the auditor will rely on tunneling into a device located
in the physical space of the auditee. This can be done in two ways:
1. Remote Desktop or remote VPN into targeted Network. Remote Desktop is tunneling
into a targeted machine that lives on the same targeted LAN network where you
wish to scan the network and do the device assessment; the auditor controls the
machine remotely and uses it as the auditor machine.
2. VPN to a trusted VPN server. In this case, the auditee will connect one of their
machines to a trusted VPN server, and the auditor will connect to the same VPN
server, allowing both LANs at the auditee's and auditor's ends to connect.
Materials Needed
Scenario 1
A machine accessible globally via ssh. It could be a machine or a virtual server
A GNULinux machine on the auditor's side
A machine running Linux or Mac with ssh on the auditee's end. If the audited
organization only has Windows computers, they can use a live distribution, for
example Ubuntu Live.
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