Sometimes, during security audits, we may encounter a situation where everything is being managed correctly. In other words security patches, policies, network segmentation, antivirus, and user awareness, to name just a few measures, are being applied properly. That’s when, in order to continue the analysis from the perspective of a security researcher or consultant, social engineering and a number of other tools, some of which we will look at in this post, start to play more importance, being perhaps the only ones that can allow an attacker to penetrate the target system.
The tools in question are mainly pieces of hardware designed for security research or projects. So here’s a list of the 10 tools every white hat hacker needs.