HOW SECURE IS YOUR ACTIVE DIRECTORY?
Keep the Keys to your Organisation Safe
Active Directory controls authentication, authorization, and identity across your organisation. If compromised, attackers can escalate privileges, move laterally, and gain control of critical systems, leading to data breaches, operational disruption, and significant financial loss.
Cybercriminals target AD due to its vast interconnections and complexity, making it an ideal entry point. Weak configurations, outdated policies, and unmonitored changes create vulnerabilities that adversaries exploit to gain access and escalate attacks.
Once inside, attackers can extract credentials, deploy ransomware, or disable security controls, leaving organizations defenseless. Even minor misconfigurations can compromise an entire network.
Reducing this risk requires a proactive approach with continuous assessment, secure configuration, and effective monitoring to limit exposure and detect abuse early. Our Active Directory Security Assessment (ADSA) identifies key weaknesses, attack paths, and detection gaps, providing clear steps to strengthen your security posture.
A Complete Analysis of your Control, Privilege, and Resilience
We examine who can become powerful in your domain, and how easily
- Privileged users, nested groups, and delegation chains
- Service accounts and non-human identities
- Excessive rights that enable silent escalation
- Paths from standard user to domain-level control
We identify structural weaknesses that attackers exploit once inside
- Domain and forest design decisions
- Group Policy misuse or drift
- Legacy authentication and protocol exposure
- Settings that enable credential theft or replay
We map how control spreads once an account is compromised
- Privilege escalation and lateral movement routes
- Trust relationships and delegation abuse
- Chained misconfigurations that accelerate compromise
- Conditions that enable full domain takeover
We map how control spreads once an account is compromised
- Privilege escalation and lateral movement routes
- Trust relationships and delegation abuse
- Chained misconfigurations that accelerate compromise
- Conditions that enable full domain takeover
We assess whether your AD can survive an attack without irreversible damage
- Protection of domain controllers and backups
- Administrative separation and blast-radius containment
- Ability to recover trust and control
- Safeguards against destructive or permanent changes
Born from Experience
The CSIS AD Security Assessment is grounded in over 20 years of incident response experience, where a consistent pattern emerges. Large-scale cyber incidents rarely start with sophisticated exploits. They succeed because attackers gain administrative control of Active Directory. Once that level of access is achieved, the rest of the environment typically follows.
This service was developed to address that exact risk. It provides a focused assessment of your Active Directory environment, revealing how an attacker could gain control, move through the domain, and escalate impact. The result is a clear understanding of your exposure and where to act to prevent a minor weakness from becoming a major disruption.
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Chronos is our proprietary platform, used across Digital Forensics, Active Directory, and Cloud environments to analyze complex systems with precision. It enables efficient data collection, deep analysis, and consistent, high-quality reporting, providing the visibility needed to identify risk, exposure, and attack paths at scale.
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Scales across complex environments and handles large and distributed Active Directory infrastructures without loss of coverage or accuracy.
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Easily deployed with native integration through LDAP, Active Directory Web Services, and Directory Replication Service to ensure fast, low-impact data collection.
Assessment Report
The assessment report includes an executive summary with clear, leadership-level insights and recommendations, followed by a detailed breakdown of methodology, scope, data collection, findings, and remediation of identified vulnerabilities. Risks are prioritised from low to critical and grouped across key security areas:
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Active Directory configuration
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Attack surface
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Authentication and authorisation
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Domain controller configuration
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Domain and password healthcheck
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Security policies
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User object security
"AD Security Assessment became an amazing solution for our business, where we managed to get a full report covering all our security issues and misconfigurations. The unparalleled expertise that we gained from CSIS specialists has helped us significantly to strengthen our organization’s security posture and improve resilience against targeted attacks."
"AD Security Assessment became an amazing solution for our business, where we managed to get a full report covering all our security issues and misconfigurations. The unparalleled expertise that we gained from CSIS specialists has helped us significantly to strengthen our organization’s security posture and improve resilience against targeted attacks."