Jiri Vanek
Jiří is a security consultant with over 20 years of experience in IT, management, and ethical hacking. He specialises in Red Team operations and physical security assessments, simulating real-world attacks to uncover weaknesses in organisational security. He has first-hand experience of successful intrusions into international corporations, banks, and government institutions.
He works as an independent consultant and trainer. Across Europe, he conducts physical penetration tests, provides security consulting services to large organisations, and trains professionals in ethical hacking and Covert Methods of Entry. His work combines deep technical expertise, hands-on experience from real engagements, and the ability to transfer practical knowledge to other security specialists.
Session
If you can open the server room door, you don’t need exploits.
In this talk, we demonstrate nine real-world ways attackers bypass a server room door and achieve full compromise—no malware, no zero-days, no phishing required. Firewalls, EDR, and IAM become irrelevant the moment physical access is gained.
This is not theory. These are techniques used in actual red team engagements across Europe. We show how attackers exploit trust, abuse operational gaps, and chain physical access into full compromise. These techniques go beyond tailgating.
We also cover how modern attackers accelerate these intrusions using AI—automating OSINT to map targets and using deepfake voice pretexting to convincingly talk their way through restricted access points.
If your threat model stops at the network edge, this talk will break it.