Identity Exposure

Identify privilege gaps, misconfigurations, and attack paths across Active Directory before they lead to domain compromise.

ACTIVE DIRECTORY RISK ASSESSMENT

Privilege & Access Risk

WHAT IS ACTIVE DIRECTORY RISK ASSESSMENT AT ARGON?

Active Directory remains one of the most critical parts of enterprise security. It controls identities, access, privileges, and trust relationships — which also makes it a prime target for attackers.

At Argon Cyber Security, our Active Directory Risk Assessment helps uncover misconfigurations, excessive privileges, weak delegation settings, risky group memberships, exposed service accounts, insecure GPOs, and hidden attack paths that could lead to domain compromise.

We combine manual analysis with proven tooling such as BloodHound to understand how an attacker could move through your environment, escalate privileges, and reach critical assets. The assessment covers traditional on-premises AD, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity environments.

The result is a clear view of your identity security risks, with prioritized recommendations to reduce exposure, harden access controls, and strengthen your overall identity perimeter.

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HOW IT WORKS

AD ENVIRONMENT DISCOVERY

We define the AD scope, including forests, domains, trusts, users, groups, OUs, and privilege levels to understand how identity and access are structured.

CONFIGURATION & ATTACK PATH ANALYSIS

We review GPOs, ACLs, delegation, service accounts, group memberships, and privilege relationships, then map how attackers could move through the environment using tools like BloodHound.

RISK PRESENTATION & REMEDIATION PLAN

We present the key risks, visual attack paths, and potential impact, then deliver a clear remediation plan with prioritized steps to reduce domain compromise risk.

TESTING PHASES

SCOPING & ACCESS

Scope Definition: Define AD forests, domains, and trust relationships to be included in the assessment.

Goals Setting: Identify primary objectives — privilege escalation paths, misconfigurations, or domain compromise.

Rules of Engagement: Set testing depth, access level (read-only, limited admin), and boundaries for analysis.

User & Group Enumeration: List all users, admin accounts, security groups, and nested permissions.

Delegation Discovery: Detect delegated rights, shadow admins, and overly trusted objects.

Object Analysis: Identify orphaned, disabled, or vulnerable accounts and objects.

ENUMERATION & MAPPING

ATTACK PATH ANALYSIS

BloodHound Graphing: Map relationships and attack chains using graph-based analysis.

Privilege Escalation Tracing: Simulate common techniques like DCSync, ACL abuse, SIDHistory abuse.

Lateral Movement Scenarios: Outline realistic routes attackers could take within the domain.

SECURITY CONFIGURATION REVIEW

GPO Inspection: Analyze Group Policy settings, inheritance, and exposure risks.

ACL & SPN Audit: Review access control lists and service principal name abuse paths.

Delegation Flags: Identify misused delegation types (e.g. Unconstrained or RBCD).

REPORTING & RECOMMENDATIONS

Visualized Findings: Provide attack graphs and privilege escalation maps with descriptions.

Risk Prioritization: Rate vulnerabilities by business impact and exploitability.

Remediation Guidance: Deliver clear mitigation steps, AD hardening advice, and cleanup guidance.

WHY CHOOSE ARGON FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY RISK ASSESSMENT?

Active Directory risk is often hidden in places that look ordinary: old group memberships, excessive privileges, weak delegation settings, legacy trusts, misconfigured GPOs, and service accounts that have quietly become too powerful.

At Argon Cyber Security, we assess AD the way an attacker would approach it. Our team reviews on-premises Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity environments to uncover privilege escalation paths, risky trust relationships, lateral movement opportunities, and misconfigurations that could lead to domain compromise.

We combine tools like BloodHound with manual, expert-led analysis to go beyond automated findings. You receive clear attack path visualization, practical risk context, and prioritized remediation steps your team can actually implement.

With Argon, Active Directory becomes less of a blind spot — and a stronger foundation for enterprise security.

WHY CHOOSE ARGON FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY RISK ASSESSMENT?

Active Directory risk is often hidden in places that look ordinary: old group memberships, excessive privileges, weak delegation settings, legacy trusts, misconfigured GPOs, and service accounts that have quietly become too powerful.

At Argon Cyber Security, we assess AD the way an attacker would approach it. Our team reviews on-premises Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and hybrid identity environments to uncover privilege escalation paths, risky trust relationships, lateral movement opportunities, and misconfigurations that could lead to domain compromise.

We combine tools like BloodHound with manual, expert-led analysis to go beyond automated findings. You receive clear attack path visualization, practical risk context, and prioritized remediation steps your team can actually implement.

With Argon, Active Directory becomes less of a blind spot — and a stronger foundation for enterprise security.

OUR CERTIFICATIONS

OSCP certification badge — Offensive Security Certified Professional

OSWE certification badge — Offensive Security Web Expert

OSEP certification badge — Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester

OSWP certification badge — Offensive Security Wireless Professional

CRTL certification badge — Certified Red Team Lead

CRTO certification badge — Certified Red Team Operator

Our Services

PACKAGES

01

EXTERNAL

DOMAIN ENUMERATION & MAPPING — Included
USER & GROUP PRIVILEGE ANALYSIS — Included
BLOODHOUND ATTACK PATH MAPPING — None
ACL & DELEGATION AUDIT — None
GPO CONFIGURATION REVIEW — None
SERVICE ACCOUNT & SPN ANALYSIS — None
TRUST RELATIONSHIP & SID HISTORY REVIEW — None
THREAT SIMULATION (KERBEROASTING, AS-REP, ETC.) — None

VISUAL ATTACK GRAPH DELIVERY — None

FULL REMEDIATION PLAN — None

DURATION — 4 BUSINESS DAYS

02

BASIC

DOMAIN ENUMERATION & MAPPING — Included
USER & GROUP PRIVILEGE ANALYSIS — Included
BLOODHOUND ATTACK PATH MAPPING — Included
ACL & DELEGATION AUDIT — Included
GPO CONFIGURATION REVIEW — Included
SERVICE ACCOUNT & SPN ANALYSIS — Optional
TRUST RELATIONSHIP & SID HISTORY REVIEW — None
THREAT SIMULATION (KERBEROASTING, AS-REP, ETC.) — Optional

VISUAL ATTACK GRAPH DELIVERY — Included

FULL REMEDIATION PLAN — Optional

DURATION — 8 BUSINESS DAYS

03

ADVANCED

DOMAIN ENUMERATION & MAPPING — Included
USER & GROUP PRIVILEGE ANALYSIS — Included
BLOODHOUND ATTACK PATH MAPPING — Included
ACL & DELEGATION AUDIT — Included
GPO CONFIGURATION REVIEW — Included
SERVICE ACCOUNT & SPN ANALYSIS — Included
TRUST RELATIONSHIP & SID HISTORY REVIEW — Included
THREAT SIMULATION (KERBEROASTING, AS-REP, ETC.) — Included