Active Directory Security Assessment

Deeply assess your Active Directory environment to uncover misconfigurations, privilege escalation paths, and legacy risks that attackers can exploit.

Go Beyond the Surface with Deep Domain Analysis

  • Uncover Initial Access Weaknesses

    Identify flaws, misconfigurations, and insecure defaults that can grant attackers a foothold in Active Directory from an unauthenticated starting point.

  • Uncover Privilege Escalation Paths

    Identify misconfigurations, trust abuse, and delegation flaws that lead to Domain Admin.

  • Audit AD at Key Permission Levels

    Evaluate security posture from critical vantage points, including unauthenticated, standard user, and Domain Admin, to reveal risks present at each level of access.

  • Map Trusts, ACLs, and GPOs

    Trace influence and access through complex AD relationships, including trusts and file shares.

Our Active Directory Security Assessment is designed to reveal hidden risks in the identity backbone of your enterprise. We assess all AD components including group membership, administrative access, Group Policy Objects (GPOs), access control lists (ACLs), trusts, remote access permissions, file shares, authentication mechanisms, legacy configurations, Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) implementations, and more. Our AD assessments are tailored to both on-prem and hybrid environments.

Testing is performed in three phases:

  • Unauthenticated: Test internal network exposure and initial access risks.
  • Standard User: Evaluate what a rogue employee could access or escalate to.
  • Domain Admin: Deep dive into configurations for hardening and hygiene improvements.

We enumerate users, groups, ACLs, GPOs, trusts, and other domain objects, then identify potential attack chains. Findings are prioritized with remediation guidance to help harden your AD environment against modern threats.

Assessment Benefits

  • Proactively discover exploitable misconfigurations before attackers do
  • Reduce the risk of domain compromise through privilege escalation and lateral movement
  • Expose hidden trust and ACL relationships that increase attack surface
  • Uncover legacy settings and insecure defaults that weaken security posture
  • Strengthen defenses against ransomware operators and targeted threat actors
  • Gain deeper visibility than standard penetration tests or vulnerability scans
  • Receive clear, prioritized remediation steps mapped to business impact

Ready to Uncover the Gaps in Your AD Environment?

Let Vilkas help you identify and fix the issues that leave your Active Directory vulnerable.