Active Directory Security Assessment

Introduction/Overview

Our Active Directory Security Assessment services meticulously examine your Active Directory (AD) environment for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential attack paths that could lead to privilege escalation, domain compromise, or unauthorized access to critical resources. Given AD’s central role in identity and access management, securing it is paramount for any organization.

Why is this important?

Active Directory is often the crown jewel for attackers, as compromising it grants control over users, computers, and services across an entire domain. Weaknesses in AD configurations, group policies, or service accounts can enable attackers to move laterally, elevate privileges, and ultimately seize control of your entire network. A robust AD security assessment is critical to prevent such catastrophic breaches.

Our Approach/Methodology

Our assessment employs a combination of automated scanning tools and deep manual analysis by AD security experts. We scrutinize domain controller configurations, GPOs (Group Policy Objects), Kerberos settings, user and group permissions, service principal names (SPNs), and potential attack routes like unconstrained delegation. We identify common weaknesses that attackers frequently leverage, such as “BloodHound” paths.

Key Features/What you get

• Configuration Review: Assessment of domain controller settings, GPOs, and password policies.
• Privilege Escalation Path Analysis: Identification of misconfigurations that allow attackers to gain higher privileges.
• Service Account Audit: Review of service principal names (SPNs) and associated permissions.
• Trust Relationship Evaluation: Assessment of security implications for domain trusts.
• Kerberos & NTLM Security Review: Analysis of authentication protocols for common vulnerabilities.
• Weaknesses Against Common AD Attacks: Identifying susceptibility to attacks like Golden Ticket, Silver Ticket, Pass-the-Hash.
• Detailed Active Directory Security Report: Comprehensive findings, severity, and clear potential exploit scenarios.
• Actionable Remediation Guidance: Specific, prioritized recommendations to harden your AD environment.

Benefits

• Prevent Domain Compromise: Significantly reduce the risk of a full Active Directory takeover.
• Strengthen Identity & Access Management: Secure user and computer accounts and their privileges.
• Eliminate Privilege Escalation Paths: Close off routes for attackers to gain administrative access.
• Enhance Resiliency: Improve your AD’s ability to withstand targeted attacks.
• Achieve Compliance: Meet regulatory requirements for strong identity and access controls.
• Reduce Lateral Movement Risks: Confine attackers who gain initial access to your network.