Perimeter defense alone is no longer considered acceptable protection against catastrophic ransomware losses. Modern commercial cyber insurance carriers (such as Travelers Canada, Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, Beazley, Coalition, and AXA XL) and Canadian financial regulators (under OSFI Guideline B-13) enforce stringent mandates. Organizations require verifiable proof that an attacker with initial access cannot casually traverse your internal network, compromise Active Directory Domain Controllers, or trigger statutory breach liabilities under PIPEDA Section 10.1.
Riptide Cybersecurity’s Internal Network & Assume-Breach Assessment simulates a realistic compromise—emulating what a threat actor, malicious insider, or ransomware operator can accomplish after landing on a standard corporate workstation or exploiting compromised employee credentials.
Cyber Insurance Mandates: Why Internal Controls Matter
Cyber insurance renewal questionnaires now require organizations to attest to specific internal defensive controls:
- Active Directory Tiering & Privilege Containment: Proof that Domain Admin and high-privilege credentials cannot be harvested from standard employee endpoints.
- Ransomware Blast-Radius Restriction: Evidence that network segmentation, VLAN isolation, and microsegmentation prevent malicious lateral movement across core operational subnets.
- EDR Containment & Tamper Resistance: Third-party validation that Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions detect and isolate active adversary tradecraft in real-time.
Failure to demonstrate third-party validation of these controls results in punitive premium increases, severe ransomware sub-limits (e.g., capping payouts at 10% of policy value), or outright denial of coverage.
Hands-On Adversary Emulation Tradecraft
Led by an operator certified as a Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO), Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester (OSEP), and Certified Altered Security Red Team Professional for Azure (CARTP), we simulate sophisticated real-world attack chains:
- Active Directory Attack Path Mapping: Exhaustive graph analysis using BloodHound to map non-obvious ACL permission abuse, nested group delegation flaws, and unconstrained delegation paths leading to Domain Dominance.
- Credential Harvesting & Kerberos Exploitation: Executing AS-REP roasting, Kerberoasting (RC4/AES), password spraying against internal services, and token extraction from LSASS/memory.
- Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Abuse: Auditing enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for misconfigured certificate templates (ESC1 through ESC8) that allow arbitrary domain privilege escalation.
- Hybrid Cloud & Entra ID Privilege Escalation: Evaluating Azure Arc, Entra Connect, Managed Identities, and Azure Key Vault exposures to determine if on-premises access allows an adversary to pivot into cloud infrastructure.
- Internal Network Segmentation & Protocol Poisoning: Testing LLMNR/NBT-NS poisoning, IPv6 DNS takeover (mitm6), and SMB signing verification to evaluate workstation-to-workstation lateral movement barriers.
Actionable Underwriting & Engineering Deliverables
Our internal assessments provide the authoritative technical evidence required by insurance brokers, risk committees, and internal engineering teams:
- Cyber Insurance Underwriting Attestation: A formal document detailing the simulated breach scenario, attack surface boundaries, and containment efficacy to satisfy underwriter validation criteria.
- Adversary Attack Path Visualizations: Detailed step-by-step documentation showing the exact technical chain used during escalation, allowing IT administrators to pinpoint the root architectural weakness rather than chasing isolated symptoms.
- Prioritized Hardening Roadmap: Pragmatic engineering guidance for implementing Active Directory Tiered Administration (Tier 0/1/2 isolation), Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), hardened Group Policies, and SMB signing.
- Complimentary 90-Day Verification Retest: After your team implements segmentation or identity hardening, we re-test the identified attack paths to formally certify remediation.
