Active Directory Security Assessment
Active Directory is the backbone of most enterprise networks — and attackers' favourite target. We assess your AD and Entra ID for the misconfigurations and attack paths that lead to domain compromise, and show you how to close them.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- Active Directory and Entra ID configuration assessment
- Attack-path analysis to domain/tenant compromise
- Privileged-group and delegation review
- Kerberos, authentication and legacy-protocol weaknesses
- Password-policy and credential-exposure review
- Tiering and hardening recommendations
What you receive
- AD security assessment report
- Attack-path diagrams and findings
- Prioritised hardening roadmap
- Privileged-access recommendations
- Executive summary
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Only your own directory, with authorisation
- Assessment via authorised access
- Implementation by your team
- No misuse of privileged access during assessment
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
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Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- Why is Active Directory such a big deal?
- Because compromising AD usually means compromising everything. Attackers who breach a single workstation often pivot to domain admin through AD misconfigurations. Hardening AD dramatically raises the bar.
- Do you cover Entra ID (Azure AD) too?
- Yes. Hybrid identity is the norm now, and the connection between on-prem AD and Entra ID is a common attack path we specifically assess.
- What do you need from us?
- Authorised access to run assessment tooling against your directory (typically a domain-joined system and suitable account), and context on your tiering. We map the real attack paths.
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