ADVANCED THREAT PROTECTION
Disrupt Threats Before They Become Business Incidents
Capable attackers rarely depend on one weakness. They combine exposed systems, stolen identities, weak privilege, trusted tools and gaps in monitoring until they reach the information or operation that matters.
Digisecuritas helps organisations identify those paths, test whether existing defences can interrupt them and strengthen the decisions required when suspicious activity appears.
Independent assessment. Threat-informed priorities. Evidence-led improvement.
THREAT DISRUPTION CHAIN
Reduce the opportunity
Remove exposed services, unsafe configurations and preventable attack paths.
Constrain the attacker
Limit privilege, administrative reach and movement between systems.
Detect meaningful activity
Build visibility around behaviour that indicates credible compromise.
Respond with control
Give teams the authority, evidence and procedures needed to contain impact.
THE THREAT DISRUPTION CHAIN
Strong defence creates several opportunities to interrupt an attack
Threat-informed defence examines how adversaries pursue objectives and which controls can interrupt those actions. MITRE ATT&CK provides a knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques drawn from real-world observations. Use it to structure relevant threat scenarios and defensive coverage, not as a checklist requiring every technique to be monitored.
Stage 1: External exposure
Threat objective: Find a reachable system, identity or supplier path.
Understand
- —Internet-facing services
- —Cloud exposure
- —Remote administration
- —Vulnerable products
- —Leaked credentials
- —Third-party connections
Disrupt through
- —Attack-surface management
- —Secure configuration
- —Exposure removal
- —Prioritised remediation
Evidence
- External asset inventory
- Service exposure
- Vulnerability state
- Ownership records
Stage 2: Initial access
Threat objective: Establish an entry point into the environment.
Understand
- —Phishing exposure
- —Exploitable applications
- —Remote-access paths
- —Identity recovery
- —Supplier access
- —User execution
Disrupt through
- —Strong authentication
- —Email protection
- —Application security
- —Endpoint controls
- —Access restrictions
Evidence
- MFA coverage
- Endpoint policy
- Email controls
- Access events
Stage 3: Identity and privilege
Threat objective: Obtain stronger credentials or administrative authority.
Understand
- —Privileged accounts
- —Service identities
- —Credential storage
- —Standing access
- —Administrative pathways
- —Helpdesk processes
Disrupt through
- —Privileged-access control
- —Credential protection
- —Time-bound elevation
- —Identity monitoring
- —Account isolation
Evidence
- Privileged-account inventory
- Elevation records
- Authentication logs
- Recovery procedures
Stage 4: Lateral movement
Threat objective: Reach additional systems and valuable resources.
Understand
- —Trust relationships
- —Network paths
- —Shared administration
- —Remote tools
- —Cloud permissions
- —Identity federation
Disrupt through
- —Segmentation
- —Application-specific access
- —Administrative tiering
- —Endpoint detection
- —Service isolation
Evidence
- Communication flows
- Administrative groups
- Remote-tool usage
- Detection coverage
Stage 5: Objective and impact
Threat objective: Steal data, manipulate systems, disrupt operations or extort the organisation.
Understand
- —Critical services
- —Sensitive information
- —Recovery dependencies
- —High-risk transactions
- —Operational systems
- —Destructive access
Disrupt through
- —Data access control
- —Behaviour monitoring
- —Critical-action protection
- —Resilient backups
- —Containment procedures
Evidence
- Data flows
- High-risk permissions
- Backup configuration
- Response playbooks
Stage 6: Response and recovery
Threat objective: Contain the threat, restore trusted operations and prevent recurrence.
Understand
- —Decision authority
- —Investigation evidence
- —Containment options
- —Business priorities
- —Recovery order
- —Communications
Disrupt through
- —Incident preparation
- —Tested playbooks
- —Forensic readiness
- —Crisis governance
- —Recovery validation
Evidence
- Incident plans
- Escalation matrix
- Exercise results
- Recovery tests
Services aligned to credible threat paths
Threat exposure assessment
Identify external, identity, cloud, endpoint and third-party conditions that could support a serious attack.
Typical outputs
- —Exposure overview
- —Attack-path findings
- —Prioritised remediation
Threat-informed defence assessment
Map relevant threat behaviours to preventive, detective and responsive controls across the environment.
Typical outputs
- —Threat scenario set
- —Defensive coverage map
- —Control priorities
Ransomware resilience assessment
Review the paths and dependencies that could allow ransomware to spread, disrupt operations or affect recovery.
Typical outputs
- —Ransomware exposure findings
- —Containment gaps
- —Recovery priorities
Detection coverage assessment
Examine whether current data sources, detections and workflows can identify behaviour associated with priority threat scenarios.
Typical outputs
- —Detection coverage map
- —Telemetry gaps
- —Detection improvement plan
Purple team and adversary validation
Safely test whether controls and teams can detect and interrupt agreed attack behaviours.
Typical outputs
- —Control-validation evidence
- —Detection findings
- —Improvement actions
Incident and crisis readiness
Assess technical response, decision authority, communications, recovery and coordination through structured scenarios.
Typical outputs
- —Readiness findings
- —Playbook priorities
- —Exercise report
HOW WE WORK
Start with the threats that could affect the business
01
Define priority scenarios
Identify critical services, sensitive assets, relevant threat actors and consequences that leadership needs to reduce.
02
Map attack and control paths
Connect external exposure, identity, privilege, movement, data and operations to existing preventive and detective controls.
03
Validate the defence
Review evidence and conduct authorised testing to determine where controls can and cannot interrupt the scenario.
04
Prioritise improvement
Define immediate corrections, detection work, architectural changes and response improvements with named owners.
The assessment must distinguish assumed control coverage from coverage supported by current evidence.
Where capable attackers gain room to operate
Known exploited vulnerabilities
Externally exposed or critical systems remain vulnerable despite evidence of active exploitation.
CISA maintains its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog to help organisations prioritise vulnerabilities confirmed as exploited in the wild. CISA KEV Catalog
Weak identity recovery
Helpdesk, fallback and emergency processes bypass stronger authentication controls.
Standing administrative access
Powerful permissions remain available continuously across everyday accounts and devices.
Shared trust paths
Flat networks, shared administration and unrestricted remote tools make movement easier.
Detection without ownership
Alerts exist, but no team has clear responsibility or authority to investigate and contain them.
Untested recovery
Backups exist without enough evidence that critical services can be restored securely and in the required order.
What your organisation receives
A clear view of which threat paths matter and where defence can be strengthened.
Results depend on the agreed scope, available evidence and testing activities authorised. No assessment can guarantee the prevention or detection of every attack.
Independent validation across prevention, detection and response
Threats selected by relevance
The work focuses on scenarios connected to the organisation's assets, exposure and operations.
Controls tested as a system
Identity, endpoint, cloud, network, data and response controls are assessed together.
Evidence before assurance
Configured or licensed controls are not treated as effective without supporting evidence.
Improvements tied to ownership
Recommendations name the team, dependency and verification needed to close the gap.
Related solutions
Detection & Response
Improve SOC, SIEM, MDR, detection and incident-handling capability.
Offensive Security
Validate defences through penetration testing and adversarial exercises.
Identity & Access Security
Reduce identity compromise and excessive privilege.
Cloud Security
Protect cloud resources, workloads and administrative paths.
IoT & Operational Technology Security
Address threats that could affect physical and industrial operations.
Advanced threat protection questions
FOCUS DEFENCE ON THE THREATS THAT MATTER
Find where a serious attack could progress
Tell us which systems, data or threat scenarios concern you. Digisecuritas will help define the right assessment and validation scope.
Independent validation • Threat-informed priorities • Practical improvement