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Adversary Simulation

Lateral Movement & Persistence

Adversary simulation of how an intrusion spreads and digs in: living-off-the-land movement across your network and persistence techniques that a real attacker uses to keep access.

How it works

Inside Lateral Movement & Persistence

01

Living Off the Land

Capable attackers avoid malware, using your own tools to move so they blend with normal activity.

Our methodology

We move laterally using pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket and living-off-the-land techniques with legitimate tools such as PowerShell and WMI, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Lateral Movement tactic.

  • Pass-the-hash
  • Living-off-the-land
  • Lateral Movement
02

Establishing Persistence

Real adversaries plan to stay. Persistence is what turns a short intrusion into a long-term compromise.

Our methodology

We test persistence techniques that let an attacker keep access across reboots and credential changes, exercising the Persistence tactic and your ability to detect it.

  • Persistence
  • Backdoors
  • Detection
03

Mapping Internal Exposure

The real risk is reach: whether movement is contained by segmentation or spreads to critical systems.

Our methodology

We map how far movement spreads across segments toward sensitive systems, showing exactly where segmentation and monitoring succeed or fail.

  • Segmentation
  • Internal exposure
  • Attack paths
FAQ

Lateral Movement & Persistence FAQs

What does lateral movement and persistence test?

It tests how an intrusion spreads and digs in. We move using pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket and living-off-the-land techniques, and test persistence that keeps access across reboots and credential changes, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Lateral Movement and Persistence tactics.

Why use built-in tools rather than malware?

Because real attackers do, to avoid detection. Living off the land tests whether your monitoring can tell malicious use of PowerShell or WMI from normal administration.

Will persistence leave anything behind?

No. Any persistence established during testing is documented and removed, and we confirm the environment is clean at the end of the engagement.

How do we contain this in future?

Findings map to the segmentation, hardening and detection changes that break movement and surface persistence, prioritised for your team with a retest.

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