The Silent Breach: Unmasking Hidden Threats with Compromise Assessment

Steps of a Compromise Assessment

1. Assess: To start a compromise assessment, you will need to collect forensic data to search for signs of potential compromise in endpoints, network traffic, and logs.

2. Analyze: Compromise assessment teams can use the collected data to determine if there has been an attack? If yes, the suspected compromises are validated and the team can develop an analysis to find out who is behind the attack, why they are targeting an organization, what their objective is and how they execute their tradecraft. This knowledge can be used to anticipate and block the adversary’s next steps.

3. Assist: The findings from the compromise assessment can be used by analysts to respond to and remediate the discovered threats.

4. Advise: The compromise assessment is completed when the organization understands how to improve its in-house response capabilities and overall security posture so it can prevent or address future incidents.

In Conclusion

A compromise assessment looks not only at indicators of compromise and indicators of attack, but also at the reasons they may have occurred, what next steps are in order, and what actions can be taken to improve the organization’s overall security posture.