Identity Risk Assessment
Your Active Directory environment has vulnerabilities attackers are already looking for — the question is whether you find them first. Get a clear picture of your identity attack surface before it becomes an incident.
What Is An Identity Risk Assessment?
An Identity Risk Assessment is a structured evaluation of your organization's identity infrastructure — examining how users, permissions, and access controls are configured, managed, and secured. For most enterprises, that means a deep dive into Microsoft Active Directory (AD), the system that governs who can access what across your entire network.
The goal is straightforward: find the vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and blind spots that attackers look for — before they do.
Attack Surface Visibility
A comprehensive assessment surfaces misconfigurations, excessive privileges, and exploitable attack paths before threat actors can find them.
Prioritized, Actionable Findings
Every identified risk is ranked by severity and paired with specific remediation guidance so your team knows exactly what to fix first.
Benchmark Against Industry Standards
Your environment is evaluated against Microsoft security baselines, CIS benchmarks, and CISA guidance to identify gaps in your current posture.
A Strong Foundation
Whether you're planning AD hardening, implementing PAWs, or pursuing Zero Trust, the assessment gives you the baseline to make informed decisions
Why Does an Identity Risk Assessment Matter?
Microsoft Active Directory is the backbone of IT infrastructure for most organizations — and one of the most frequently targeted systems in modern cyberattacks. When AD is compromised, attackers don't just gain access to one system. They gain a foothold across your entire network, with the ability to move laterally, escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, and deploy ransomware.
Unknown Attack Paths
Years of accumulated technical debt means misconfigurations, stale accounts, and deprecated protocols are almost certainly present in your environment, whether you know it or not.
Compliance Gaps At The Worst Times
Audit findings and regulatory examinations expose identity security weaknesses that a proactive assessment would have caught months earlier.
Unfocused Remediation Efforts
Without a prioritized assessment, security teams waste time on low-impact fixes while critical vulnerabilities go unaddressed.
Difficult Incident Recovery
Organizations without baseline visibility into their AD environment struggle to scope, contain, and remediate breaches effectively.
Don't wait for an incident to force action.
Get a Free Identity AssessmentSecurity & Operational Challenges We Address
Organizations that have never had a formal identity assessment are often surprised by what's hiding in their environment. Common findings include:
Privilege Escalation Paths
Misconfigured accounts and group memberships create silent pathways from standard user to domain admin that most organizations don't know exist.
Our Solution: We identify and remediate the permission structures and group membership anomalies that make privilege escalation trivially easy for attackers.
Credential Theft & Lateral Movement
Exploitable relationships within your AD environment give attackers a roadmap to your most sensitive assets — and tools like Mimikatz and BloodHound make that map easy to follow.
Our Solution: We surface those attack paths before adversaries do and provide a prioritized plan to close them.
Legacy Protocol Vulnerabilities
Outdated protocols like NTLMv1 and LM that remain active in your environment create direct exposure to Pass-the-Hash attacks and credential interception.
Our Solution: We identify every legacy protocol still in use and provide a structured remediation plan to phase them out safely.
Stale & Over-Privileged Accounts
Inactive accounts, under-deprovisioned former admins, and bloated administrative groups accumulate over time and represent high-value targets that attackers actively seek out.
Our Solution: We audit your entire account landscape and right-size access across users, computers, and administrative groups.
Misconfigured Kerberos Settings
Maintaining regulatory compliance requires consistent access controls and audit trails across hybrid environments.
Our Solution: Configurations like unconstrained delegation make it straightforward for attackers to compromise high-value targets without triggering detection. We identify dangerous Kerberos misconfigurations and provide specific remediation guidance aligned with Microsoft security baselines.
Replication & DNS Issues
Silent replication errors and DNS misconfigurations degrade your environment's reliability and create authentication gaps that affect performance and data integrity.
Our Solution: We surface these issues during assessment and provide clear remediation steps to restore a healthy, consistent AD environment.
Assessment-led Methodology
Ravenswood's Identity Risk Assessment is delivered through our AD Health Check (ADHC) — a proven, structured process refined over decades of hands-on Active Directory work.
1:1 Consultation
We start by understanding your environment, your compliance obligations (HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, and others), and your specific concerns. Every engagement is scoped to your organization, not a generic checklist.
Data Collection
We deploy our proprietary PowerShell-based ADHC module to perform a comprehensive audit of your Active Directory environment — scanning against hundreds of security best practices and known vulnerability patterns.
Expert Analysis
Our senior engineers don't just hand you raw data. We interpret the findings, identify the most critical risks, and connect technical issues to real-world business impact.
Detailed Deliverables
You receive a comprehensive written report and an executive-ready PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your overall security posture in clear, actionable terms.
Prioritized Roadmap
We walk through the results with you and provide a customized remediation roadmap — sequenced by risk priority so your team knows exactly where to focus first.
Measurable Improvements Across Security, Operations, and Compliance
Partnering with Ravenswood for hybrid identity strategy and implementation delivers outcomes you can measure and demonstrate.
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Posture VisiblityA Complete Snapshot Of Your Security Posture
You'll leave the engagement with a clear, comprehensive picture of your AD environment — every misconfiguration, excessive privilege, stale account, and exploitable attack path documented and explained. No guesswork, no assumptions, no surprises during your next audit or incident.
Clear
Path ForwardPrioritized Remediation Roadmap
Not all risks are equal, and your team's time isn't unlimited. Every finding is ranked by severity and paired with specific, actionable remediation guidance so you know exactly what to fix first, what can wait, and how to allocate your resources effectively.
Faster
AuditsAudit & Compliance Confidence
The assessment produces documentation that directly supports regulatory and compliance requirements including HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, and cyber insurance applications. When auditors ask about your identity security controls, you'll have the evidence to back up your answers.
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From MicrosoftBetter ROI
Many organizations are sitting on Microsoft security capabilities they've already paid for but never fully deployed. We identify the tools and features within your existing licensing that can close identified gaps — reducing risk without requiring additional spend.
Organizations That Can't Afford to Leave Identity Risk Unexamined
Industries We Serve
Commercial Enterprises
Managing distributed workforces and multi-cloud environments
Educational Institutions
Supporting diverse user populations with varying access needs
Regulated Industries
Finance, healthcare, and the defense industrial base
Roles That Benefit
CISOs & Security Leaders
IT Directors & Administrators
Compliance Officers
Microsoft Identity Experts You Can Trust
Ravenswood Technology Group isn't a generalist IT firm that happens to offer security assessments. We are internationally recognized Microsoft Active Directory experts — the practitioners who literally wrote the book on AD.
Deep Microsoft Expertise
Our team includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Certified Masters with decades of experience delivering enterprise identity programs. We don't just know the technology - we've shaped best practices.
Assessment-Led Methodology
We don't apply templates. Every engagement begins with a thorough assessment of your current environment, ensuring our recommendations address your specific challenges and risk profile.
Proven Results
Our clients report measurable improvements: massive reduction in identity-related security incidents, faster compliance audits, and significant reductions in manual identity management overhead.
Microsoft Solutions Partner
As a Microsoft Solutions Partner with certified Entra ID and Active Directory consultants, we maintain direct access to Microsoft resources and stay current with the latest platform capabilities.
Industry Standards Alignment
Our services align with Microsoft and CISA guidance, ensuring adherence to industry-leading security standards and frameworks.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does an Identity Risk Assessment take?
Most assessments are completed within one to two weeks from kickoff, depending on the size and complexity of your environment. The process is designed to be minimally disruptive to your team.
Do we need to take systems offline for the assessment?
No. Our assessment is read-only and non-disruptive. We gather data using our PowerShell module without making changes to your environment or requiring any downtime.
How is this different from a penetration test?
A penetration test attempts to actively exploit vulnerabilities. Our Identity Risk Assessment is a configuration and security audit — we identify the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that a pen tester (or attacker) would exploit, so you can remediate them proactively.
What happens after the assessment is complete?
You'll receive a detailed report, an executive summary presentation, and a prioritized roadmap. We then walk through the findings with your team and can support remediation efforts as needed.
Have more questions? Contact Ravenswood Technology Group for expert answers.
Microsoft Products We Use for Identity Risk Assessments
We leverage the full power of Microsoft's identity and security platform to deliver thorough and actionable identity risk assessments.
Microsoft Entra ID
Cloud-native identity and access management for securing users, apps, and devices across hybrid environments.
Microsoft Entra Suite
A comprehensive look at Microsoft's identity and network access product family for Zero Trust security.
Azure Active Directory B2C
Customer identity and access management platform for controlling how users sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles across your consumer-facing applications.
Get Started with Ravenswood Technology Group
Your identity infrastructure is your most critical — and most targeted — attack surface. Don't wait for an incident to find out where your gaps are. Our team will walk you through what an Identity Risk Assessment looks like for your specific environment, with no obligation and no pressure.
Let's start with a conversation.