Active Directory Pentest
Find the attack paths before attackers do.
Identify vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, and hidden attack paths that could lead to privilege escalation or full Active Directory compromise. Get a clear, prioritized roadmap to strengthen your AD security.
Your business challenges
Active Directory compromise can impact your entire environment
If attackers compromise AD, they may gain access to critical systems, users, devices, and sensitive data, increasing the risk of major outages and data leakage.
Hidden attack paths are difficult to see
Excessive permissions, weak configurations, privileged relationships, and legacy settings can combine to create paths toward Domain Admin privileges.
AD-specific weaknesses create additional risk
Kerberoasting, legacy protocols, pass-the-hash scenarios, dangerous delegations, GPO weaknesses, and certificate configuration issues can expose opportunities for attackers.
What we assess
✓ Attack paths & privilege escalation
Identify chained paths that could lead to Domain Admin privileges.
✓ Permissions & privileged accounts
Review excessive permissions, privilege relationships, and Tier-0 security weaknesses.
✓ AD-specific attack risks
Assess risks including Kerberoasting, legacy protocols, and pass-the-hash scenarios.
✓ Delegations, ACLs & Group Policy
Identify dangerous AD delegations, ACL configurations, hidden credentials, and GPO risks.
✓ Domain controllers
Identify security-relevant domain controller misconfigurations.
✓ Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
Identify certificate service and template configuration weaknesses that could create certificate-based attack paths.
How the AD Pentest works
01 Initiation
Workstation configuration and initial data discovery.
02 Analysis & scanning
Security tools and scripts are used for data collection, analysis, validation, and identification of potential attack paths.
03 Reporting
Receive an executive summary and detailed findings with risk severity and remediation recommendations.
04 Results presentation
Our specialists walk your team through the findings, priorities, and recommended next steps in an online session.
Typical engagement: 4–6 weeks
Depending on the size of your Active Directory environment.
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.
What you'll receive
- Executive summary for management
- Detailed technical findings
- Risk severity and prioritization
- Attack-path visualizations
- Remediation recommendations
- AD hardening roadmap
- Results presentation with Squalio security specialists
When should you consider an AD Pentest?
An Active Directory security assessment may be particularly valuable when you want to:
- understand your current AD security posture;
- identify hidden privilege escalation paths;
- validate security after infrastructure changes;
- strengthen AD before or after a security incident;
- review privileged access and Tier-0 security;
- assess Active Directory Certificate Services security.
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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.
