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Identity

An identity test looks at how people prove who they are: whether anyone can send mail as the domain, which passwords people pick, and which MFA prompts they approve. It is not a phishing campaign, which belongs to social engineering, and it does not cover the applications those identities sign in to.

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What am I looking at

Kill chain

  1. Recon

    • SPF, DKIM and DMARC: test email spoofing Email authentication records are public, so this is one of the few checks we can complete before a test starts. The question we answer is narrow: can someone send mail that shows the client's exact domain in the From line and reach an inbox? Reviewed
  2. Access

    • Password spraying and MFA fatigue testing Password spraying tries one likely password against many accounts, staying under every account's lockout threshold. MFA fatigue sends push approvals to a user until one is accepted. Reviewed
  3. Escalation

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  4. Persistence

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  5. Impact

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  6. Report

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