Compromise Assessment

Cyberattacks often penetrate corporate networks unnoticed for weeks or months – for example, via phishing, unsecured servers, or compromised identities. Suspicious activities such as unusual logins, persistent processes, or hidden backdoors are often the first, but difficult to detect, signs.

A compromise assessment reveals whether attackers already have undetected access to systems. Unlike traditional vulnerability scans or penetration tests, the focus is not only on identifying security gaps, but above all on assessing whether these have already been actively exploited and whether endpoints have been compromised without being noticed.

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Forensic analysis with specialized APT scanners

For these investigations, we use specialized APT scanners such as NEXTRON THOR to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) on endpoints that antivirus or EDR solutions often fail to detect. The identified IOCs are compiled into meaningful cases, prioritized, and analyzed together with the customer.

On this basis, our experts define targeted measures to contain existing incidents and sustainably improve your security architecture.

Unlike traditional endpoint security solutions (e.g., EDR), there is no real-time monitoring of processes. Instead, the focus is on forensic analysis of static artifacts down to the file level – often in areas of your systems that are difficult to access, known as blind spots. This allows even long-past or deliberately hidden attacks to be reliably identified.

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Differences to traditional EDR solutions

Two approaches, one goal: early detection of compromised systems

Compromise Assessment

A compromise assessment can be used in the context of a security incident or proactively after potentially critical events – such as the compromise of a business partner, conspicuous results from a penetration test, or structural changes in the IT landscape or within the company.

  Comprehensive analysis of conspicuous activities and anomalies

  Detailed reconstruction of possible attack paths (attack path analysis)

  Review of vulnerabilities after penetration tests or security incidents

Continuous Compromise Assessment

A one-time compromise assessment provides a snapshot of your security situation. For companies that are constantly exposed to threats, this is often not enough. Continuous compromise assessment expands on this approach with regular, systematic reviews of your IT operations.

As part of a continuous compromise assessment, your systems are examined continuously or at defined intervals (e.g., weekly or monthly) to detect new signs of compromise or latent attacks at an early stage. This reduces the time to detect from months to a few days.

  Early detection of new traces of attacks in your network

  Automated analysis combined with expert review

  Comparisons over time to identify emerging risks

Your benefits – our added value ​

With a compromise assessment, you can detect hidden cyberattacks early on and reduce potential damage before it occurs. The analysis of attack vectors shows exactly where and how systems have been compromised. At the same time, the assessment provides reliable certainty about the current security status of your IT.

Our experts combine offensive security expertise – such as penetration testing, red teaming, and vulnerability assessments – with defensive expertise in incident response and prevention. This allows us to not only uncover attacks, but also derive concrete, actionable measures that sustainably increase your company's resilience against future threats.