Active Directory Security Assessment

Active Directory Security Assessment (ADSA) is a specialised offering designed to provide you with a deep dive into security configuration and vulnerabilities that could be leveraged for company-wide attacks. This is followed by recommendations for risk mitigation and remediation measures.

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Why is Active Directory security important?

Active directory is a central component to all steps of a cyber kill-chain. This is the primary reason why Active Directory security is a critical element for organisations.

Active directory (also known as ‘ad’) is a critical element for keeping corporate environments operational and downtimes are unthinkable in this day and age. The ultimate target of any cybercriminal is to compromise the domain controllers of a business, that are the heartbeat of any network resources. Once compromised, it allows open access to the entire estate.

Literally, it is direct access to staff emails, open access around differnet portals and applications, any user’s password hashes and infiltration across multiple networks in case of trusted domain relationships (with third-parties, multiple regions, etc).

It does not matter how many security solutions you have deployed, how many security resources you have on hand – without a secure Active Directory security misconfigurations, your environment is a low hanging fruit for attackers. Whether it is an insider attacker, an external attacker or supply chain attack vector – it all comes down to compromise of one, two or all three security principles – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.

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Key Benefits of Active Directory Security Assessment (ADSA)

Once a year recommended Active Directory security health check

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Active Directory Security Testing Methodology

To perform an Active Directory assessment, it is important to understand the context of business and associated assets in scope for the engagement. Our proven approach to security assessments is based on more than a decade of experience, industry practices and effective ways to exceed customer expectations.

Cyphere’s review methodology for active directory environments are broken down into the following phases:

Initial scoping & objectives
Information gathering
Security hardening review
Environment specifics
Security best practices
Detailed report & debrief

Our Pentest Engagement Approach

The very first step remains our quest to gain insight into drivers, business, pain points, and relevant nuances. As part of this process, we understand the assets (such as external IP addresses, internal network size and other regulatory compliance requirements) that are part of the scope prepared after taking into account regulatory and contractual requirements.

It is important to gain grips with the reality, therefore, we always stress walkthroughs or technical documentation of the assets. After asset walkthroughs, a tailored proposal is designed to meet your business’ specific requirements.

Cyphere’s approach to all work involves excellent communication before and during the execution phase. Customer communication medium and frequency are mutually agreed upon, and relevant parties are kept updated throughout the engagement duration.

The execution phase is followed by the data analysis and reporting phase. Cyphere performs analysis on the testing output and evaluates the risk impact and likelihood of exploitation in realistic scenarios before providing action plans to remediate the identified risks. All our reports address business as well as the technical audience with supporting raw data, including mitigation measures at strategic and tactical levels.

As part of our engagement process, customers schedule a free-of-charge to debrief with management and technical teams. This session involves a remediation plan, and assessment QA to ensure that customer contacts are up to date in the language they understand.

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