Assumed Breach
Assessment
The question is no longer whether your perimeter will be breached — it's how much damage an attacker can do once they're inside. We start with a foothold and find out exactly what your detection and response capabilities can contain.
Already In. Now What?
Scenario Design & Beachhead Establishment
We agree on a realistic starting point — a phished employee credential, a compromised contractor laptop, or a misconfigured cloud service. We establish a beachhead that reflects how adversaries actually gain internal access.
Internal Reconnaissance
From the foothold, we enumerate internal systems, Active Directory, cloud resources, and trust relationships. We identify the highest-value targets — crown jewels — and map the attack paths that lead to them.
Lateral Movement & Objective Achievement
We move laterally using real adversary techniques — credential dumping, Kerberos attacks, living-off-the-land binaries, and abusing legitimate administrative tools. We pursue the agreed objective: domain admin, data exfiltration, or ransomware deployment simulation.
Detection & Response Assessment
We document every action taken and compare it against what your security team detected. The gap analysis shows exactly what adversary behaviour goes undetected in your environment and what an attacker can achieve before containment.
Every Path. Every Pivot.
The assumed breach model is ideal for organisations that have hardened their perimeter and want to understand their internal detection and response maturity.