Active Directory Security Assessment
he 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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How does AD security assessment works?
Active Directory security assessments issues
- Security configuration flaws at Group Policy level
- Kebreros (kerberoasting), NTLM , LDAP weaknesses
- Fine-grained password policies and privileged access controls
- OU, groups security flaws due to nesting, permissions, excessive privielges
- Insecure auditing/logging and monitoring
- Direct system vulnerabilities affecting security posture
- Environment specific security flaws (application white listing, advanced auditing, endpoint protection)
Key Benefits of Active Directory Security Assessment (ADSA)
- Measure an insider attacker's extent for exploitation
- Assess your corporate environment security posture
- Validate the effectiveness of your group policy security across the estate
- Identify the most common attack vectors and their risk remediation
- Align active directory infrastructure security best practices with business applications, portals
- Deliver an action plan to resolve the identified issues
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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
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