Active Directory Pentest
Active Directory is often the primary target in modern cyberattacks. Our Active Directory Pentest identifies vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, and hidden attack paths that could allow attackers to gain privileged access, move laterally, or compromise your environment. We provide clear risk visibility and actionable recommendations to strengthen your AD security posture.
Your business challenges
Active Directory is a high-value target
For many organizations, Active Directory controls access to critical systems, users, devices, and business data. If attackers compromise AD, they can often gain broad control over the entire environment, causing outages, ransomware impact, or sensitive data leakage.
Hidden attack paths are difficult to detect
Over time, excessive permissions, legacy configurations, unused accounts, and weak policies can create hidden opportunities for privilege escalation and lateral movement. These risks are often invisible without a dedicated Active Directory security assessment.
Attackers actively exploit AD-specific weaknesses
Modern threat actors use techniques such as Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash, legacy protocol abuse, exposed credentials, and Group Policy weaknesses to move from one compromised account to full domain control.
Our Solution
Squalio's Active Directory Pentest helps identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack paths that could lead to privilege escalation, credential theft, lateral movement, or full domain compromise. Using a combination of proven tools, scripts, and expert analysis, we evaluate your Active Directory security posture and uncover risks before attackers do. Our assessment focuses on:
- Attack path analysis
- Excessive permissions review
- AD specific risks
- Hidden credentials discovery
- Group Policy Object (GPO) risks
Our standard delivery process:
Our assessment combines automated analysis with expert validation to identify the security risks that matter most. We discover and validate vulnerabilities, analyze potential attack paths, assess their business impact, and provide prioritized recommendations for remediation.
The result is a clear understanding of your Active Directory security posture, the risks requiring immediate attention, and the actions needed to reduce the likelihood of a domain compromise.
Your benefits and deliverables
A compromised Active Directory often means a compromised organization. Squalio’s Active Directory Pentest gives you the visibility needed to identify, understand, and reduce AD security risks before they become a real incident.
Reduced risk of Active Directory compromise
Identify vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, and hidden attack paths that could allow attackers to gain privileged access or compromise your domain.
Clear view of your most critical AD risks
Receive a prioritized overview of vulnerabilities based on severity, exploitability, and potential business impact, helping your team focus on what matters most.
Real-world attacker perspective
Understand how attackers could move through your environment, escalate privileges, access sensitive data, or reach Domain Admin-level control.
(Optional) Detection and response validation
Use the assessment as an opportunity to evaluate how your existing monitoring, incident detection, and response processes react to realistic attack techniques.
Actionable remediation guidance
Get practical recommendations that help eliminate identified risks, strengthen configurations, and improve your overall Active Directory security posture.
Quick fixes implemented where possible
Where vulnerabilities require minimal effort to resolve and the customer approves the change, selected fixes can be performed during the engagement.
No additional tools required
The assessment is performed using Squalio’s expertise, methodology, tools, and scripts, reducing the workload on your internal team.
Executive and technical reporting
Receive a comprehensive report with an executive summary, technical findings, severity ratings, risk explanations, and clear next steps for remediation.
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Why us?
Squalio’s approach to cybersecurity is grounded in well-known industry standards and tailored to address today’s most sophisticated digital threats. We leverage the Zero Trust framework as a strategic baseline, ensuring that every user, device, and connection is continuously verified before accessing critical resources. This methodology provides robust protection against ransomware, phishing, and other modern cyberattacks, while simplifying IT infrastructure and reducing operational complexity. As a leading cybersecurity company, Squalio combines cybersecurity consulting services, managed cybersecurity services, and cybersecurity risk assessment to deliver practical, scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes. By partnering with us, organizations gain expert guidance, actionable strategies, and resilient security architecture that aligns with compliance requirements and supports long-term digital transformation.
