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Cyberattacks are becoming more advanced and persistent, using tools and techniques that can bypass traditional defenses and remain undetected for months or even years. A compromise assessment can help uncover threats in your environment including compromise assets, backdoors, and malicious activity by known or zero-day malware and persistent threats – active or dormant.
Why It Matters
Reducing the time between breach and detection, also known as dwell time, can significantly minimize financial loss, operational disruption, and reputational damage. A focused assessment not only uncovers threats but also delivers actionable steps to contain and eliminate them.
How It Works
The assessment process is designed to be fast, efficient, and minimally disruptive.
- Scope Planning
Identify high-risk and mission-critical systems, such as those handling sensitive data, executive communications, or public-facing services. - Data Collection
Deploy lightweight sensors to gather real-time telemetry, volatile memory, and forensic artifacts across IT assets such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems. - Threat Hunting
Investigate indicators of compromise using behavioural analysis, anomaly detection, and advanced attacker-focused intelligence aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. - Analysis
Correlate forensic data with threat-hunting results to detect malicious processes, suspicious network activity, compromised accounts, and other signs of intrusion. - Reporting
Provide detailed findings, remediation steps, and a definitive answer on whether the environment has been breached, past or present.
When You Need Compromise Assessment
- Periodically address regulatory or risk management requirements
- Supporting mergers and acquisitions due diligence
- Validating third-party security posture
- Ensure effectiveness of protections tools and security monitoring controls
- Before significant events e.g. product launching, IPO, long holiday
How Crowe Can Help
At Crowe, our cybersecurity specialists helps organization with a proven compromise assessment methodologies to uncover threats inside your infrastructure, systems, and applications. We combine advanced detection technology, in-depth threat intelligence, and incident response expertise to deliver conclusive results quickly.