DeepSec 2025 Training: Fundamentals of Covert Entry: Intensive Training – Babak Javadi, Jiri Vanek, Chris Cowling
Step into the world of covert entry with **Fundamentals of Covert Entry**, a 2-day hands-on training designed to instill penetration testers, red team operators, and security professionals with the foundational skills required for bypassing physical security systems. Designed and taught by industry-leading Red Team Alliance instructors, this course provides an engaging, technical, and accessible overview of key techniques, tools, and strategies for understanding and exploiting mechanical and electronic access control systems. Mechanical Lock Systems – The Foundations of Entry Delve into the mechanics of locks to understand critical design elements, uncover overlooked weaknesses, and exploit how they can be defeated. Understand lock components, popular European mechanisms, door assessment, and common vulnerabilities. Get hands-on with techniques for Picking, disassembly, decoding, bumping, bypassing, impressioning, master-key privilege escalation, and photographic tele-duplication. Analyze real-world mechanical lock systems to