Active Directory Security Assessment
Comprehensive security assessment of Active Directory infrastructure, focusing on privilege escalation, lateral movement, and domain compromise scenarios.
In scope
- Domain security assessment
- Trust relationship analysis
- Privilege escalation testing
- Password policy evaluation
- Group policy security review
You receive
- Domain security report
- Attack path analysis
- Privilege escalation findings
- Security policy recommendations
- Hardening guidelines
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core AD Security Assessment
$40K
Assessment of 1 AD forest with 1 domain, up to 2,500 users: password and group policy review, privileged group analysis, and privilege-escalation testing from 1 standard-user starting point.
- domains
- 1
- Users
- 2500
- 1 forest, 1 domain, up to 2,500 users
- Password policy and GPO security review
- Privileged group and delegation analysis
- Privilege-escalation testing from 1 standard account
- Hardening guidelines
- — Trust relationship analysis
- — Full attack-path mapping to domain compromise
- — Cloud identity (hybrid) review
- — Hardening implementation and retest
Advanced AD Security Program
$70K
Assessment of up to 5 domains in up to 2 forests, up to 10,000 users: full attack-path mapping to domain compromise, trust relationship analysis, lateral movement testing and review of every GPO.
- domains
- 5
- Users
- 10000
- Up to 5 domains, up to 2 forests, up to 10,000 users
- Attack-path mapping to domain compromise
- Trust relationship analysis
- Lateral movement testing
- Review of all group policies
- — Hardening implementation
- — Retest after remediation
- — Custom attack tooling
- — Tiered administration redesign
Enterprise AD Security Solution
$110K
Multi-forest AD program; no fixed domain or user cap - scoped at kickoff. Adds custom attack tooling for your environment, tiered-administration design, hands-on hardening support and a full retest after remediation.
- All forests and domains, scoped at kickoff
- Custom attack tooling and scenarios
- Tiered administration and hardening design
- Hands-on hardening support
- Full retest after remediation
- — Ongoing AD monitoring
- — Identity product licences
- — Migration or domain consolidation work
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a network & infrastructure testing engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & rules of engagement
Ranges, hosts, windows, out-of-bounds systems and emergency contacts agreed in writing.
You see · A signed ROE and a named contact.
02Reconnaissance & mapping
External and internal attack surface enumerated: services, versions, trust relationships.
You see · Nothing yet; this is quiet work.
03Vulnerability discovery
Automated coverage plus manual verification. Scanner noise is filtered out before anything is reported.
You see · Heads-up on any confirmed critical.
04Exploitation & chaining
Confirmed weaknesses are exploited safely and chained to show real impact: lateral movement, privilege escalation, data access.
You see · Evidence of what an attacker could reach.
05Reporting & debrief
Executive summary, technical findings with reproduction steps, and a prioritized fix list.
You see · The report and a walkthrough with your team.
06Retest
Fixed findings are re-verified and the report reissued, where the tier includes it.
You see · Proof the issues are closed.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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