Prepare for Potential Threats by Assuming a Data Breach Has Already Occurred to Identify Weaknesses and Patch Issues
An Assumed Breach Assessment (ABA) is a cybersecurity evaluation approach that operates under the premise that a data breach has already occurred or that attackers have already infiltrated the organization’s network. This methodology focuses on evaluating internal security controls, monitoring and detection capabilities, and employee risk management.
Test your ability to detect and respond to threats that have already bypassed your perimeter defenses.
Proactive security testing that assumes attackers are already inside your network.
Focus on internal security gaps that matter most
Insights for internal security improvements
Test detection and response capabilities
Meet breach preparedness requirements
Our Assumed Breach Assessment follows a comprehensive methodology to evaluate your internal security posture.
To evaluate the risk posed by potential malicious insiders or to assess the effectiveness of controls against internal threats. Testing starts from inside your network to simulate a compromised position.
Simulate actions of a rogue employee, such as unauthorized access to internal systems, data exfiltration, or privilege escalation. Test the effectiveness of internal controls and detection mechanisms.
Insights into potential internal security breaches, strategies to improve access controls, monitoring, detection operations, and employee risk management to contain and remediate threats.
Identify and address internal vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them
Enhance your ability to detect and respond to internal threats
Understand potential attack paths from an insider perspective
Meet regulatory requirements and reduce organizational risk
Test and improve your security monitoring capabilities
Actionable guidance to strengthen internal security controls
Simulate real-life attacks to highlight security gaps. The objective is not to identify all security gaps, but to compromise the crown jewels and show that data can be exfiltrated.
Learn More →The practice of continuously identifying, monitoring, and managing the digital assets, vulnerabilities, and entry points that could be exploited by cyber threats.
Learn More →Test your internal security posture by assuming attackers are already inside. Contact us to discuss your assessment requirements.
Get a QuoteCommon questions about Assumed Breach Assessment.
Assumed Breach Assessment is a security testing methodology that operates under the premise that an attacker has already gained access to your internal network. It focuses on evaluating your ability to detect, contain, and respond to threats from within your environment.
While penetration testing typically starts from outside the network trying to gain access, Assumed Breach testing starts from a position of compromise inside the network. This allows for deeper evaluation of internal security controls, lateral movement detection, and incident response capabilities.
Common scenarios include compromised employee workstation, malicious insider actions, lateral movement within the network, privilege escalation attempts, data exfiltration, and persistence establishment. Scenarios are customized based on your specific threat landscape.
You receive comprehensive reports including attack narrative and methodology, identified security gaps, detection and response analysis, impact assessment, and prioritized remediation recommendations with implementation guidance.