Active Directory remains a critical identity platform for many organizations. If it is misconfigured, attackers can use one weak account, excessive delegation, poor password controls, legacy authentication, or weak administrative separation to gain wider access across the environment.

Cryptika assesses Active Directory security from an attacker-aware and control-governance perspective. The objective is to identify identity risks, administrative exposure, weak configuration, and evidence gaps before they are exploited or raised during audit.

Why Organizations Need It

Identity compromise is often central to ransomware, data theft, unauthorized access, and lateral movement. Active Directory weaknesses can remain hidden because daily operations continue to work even when security controls are weak. A structured assessment helps expose risks that ordinary account reviews or vulnerability scans may not fully explain.

What the Assessment Covers

• Domain structure, trusts, privileged groups, and administrative model.
• Privileged account lifecycle, service accounts, stale accounts, and dormant users.
• Group Policy Objects and security baseline configuration.
• Password controls, lockout settings, local administrator risks, and credential exposure.
• Delegation, permissions, high-value groups, and inherited access paths.
• Authentication protocols and legacy configuration risks.
• Audit logging, event collection, and security monitoring readiness.
• Domain controller exposure, patching, backup, and recovery considerations.

How Cryptika delivers the work

• Confirm the domains, forests, administrative boundaries, and evidence sources in scope.
• Review privileged groups, delegation paths, and administrative separation.
• Analyze GPOs, authentication settings, password policies, and account lifecycle evidence.
• Identify excessive access, stale objects, weak service-account handling, and risky legacy settings.
• Assess logging and monitoring coverage for identity-related events.
• Provide prioritized remediation based on business impact and attack likelihood.

• Active Directory security assessment report.
• Privileged-access and identity-risk findings.
• GPO and baseline configuration observations.
• Account lifecycle and stale-object review notes.
• Monitoring and audit-log recommendations.
• Prioritized remediation roadmap.

What the Client Should Prepare

• Domain and forest information.
• Approved read-only access or exported AD evidence.
• Privileged group list and account-management procedures.
• GPO export, audit policy, and password policy information.
• SIEM/logging coverage details for identity events.

Scope Caution

Identity assessment activities must be authorized and coordinated carefully. High-risk validation, exploitation, or changes to domain configuration require explicit approval and change-control handling.

Related Services

• Microsoft 365 Security Assessment
• Compromise Assessment
• Network Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability Management Program Review