Pillar 04

Wireless & Passwords

Two of the quietest ways into a business: the network reachable from the car park, and the password reused across five systems.

Wireless and credentials are grouped because attackers group them. A weak pre-shared key gets someone onto the network; a reused password moves them off it and into everything else. Testing one without the other leaves the chain intact.

Wireless & Passwords — Reed Sentinel

What we check

What we check

Wireless configuration

Encryption in use, key strength, management frame protection, and whether the configuration matches what you believe is deployed.

Guest and segment isolation

Whether guest wireless genuinely reaches nothing, or quietly routes into the same flat network as your servers.

Rogue and look-alike access points

Unauthorised access points on your premises, and how convincingly yours can be impersonated.

Password policy in practice

Not the policy document — the passwords actually in use, and how they hold up against a real cracking rig.

Offline cracking

Captured hashes attacked on GPU hardware, giving you a truthful measure of how long your credentials would survive.

Credential reuse

Whether passwords seen in public breach corpora are still in use on your systems, checked without ever storing your users’ plaintext.

How it works

How it works

01

Scope and authorisation

Which sites, SSIDs and accounts are in scope. Wireless testing is bounded geographically as well as logically.

02

Survey

Signal footprint, access point inventory, and what reaches beyond your walls.

03

Test and crack

Configuration weaknesses probed, captured material attacked offline on dedicated hardware, never on your equipment.

04

Report and re-test

Findings with the exact configuration changes required, then verification once applied.

What we usually find

What we usually find

Wireless and credential findings are unusually consistent, because both tend to be configured once during a move or an upgrade and then left alone for years while the business around them changes.

Guest wireless that is not actually separate

The guest network hands out an address on the same flat network as the servers, or routes to it. Anyone in the car park with the guest key is inside. This is the most common wireless finding and among the most serious.

Keys built from the business name

Pre-shared keys made of the company name and a year, or a phone number, or the street address. These fall to a wordlist in seconds because attackers generate exactly those candidates first.

Legacy access points still broadcasting

An older access point in a back office still running weak encryption or with WPS enabled, quietly offering a route around whatever was done properly everywhere else.

Passwords reused across boundaries

The same password on a corporate account and a personal one already present in a public breach corpus. We check for this without ever holding your users’ plaintext credentials.

What you get

What you receive

A truthful measure of key strength

How long your actual credentials survive against dedicated hardware, expressed in time rather than a policy score.

A wireless map

Every access point found, authorised or otherwise, and how far each one reaches beyond your walls.

Segmentation findings

Precisely what the guest and untrusted networks can reach, tested rather than assumed from the configuration.

Configuration changes, specified

The exact settings to change on the exact equipment, then verification once applied.

You will know the price before you commit.

A twenty-minute call is enough to agree what gets checked and what it costs. Nothing on your systems is touched until you have signed to say we may.

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