The most damaging breaches start with someone who already has a badge. Privilege Zero operates with real employee-level access to expose every exfiltration path, privilege abuse, and monitoring blind spot your organisation doesn't know exists.
Insider threats span a spectrum. Privilege Zero tests all three scenarios that organisations encounter — because the data exposure risk is real regardless of intent.
A privileged user deliberately staging data for exfiltration — targeting customer lists, source code, or financial records before departure or for competitive advantage.
A standard employee syncing work files to personal cloud storage, emailing themselves sensitive documents, or inadvertently exposing data through misconfigured sharing settings.
A legitimate credential phished or credential-stuffed by an external attacker — operating with an employee's permissions but with a threat actor's intent.
Agree the three personas with the client: access level, department, and crown-jewel targets for each. Provision test accounts with genuine employee-equivalent access — not synthetic sandboxed environments.
From each persona, enumerate every data store accessible with those credentials: file shares, SharePoint/OneDrive, databases, cloud storage, email archives, and collaboration platform files — quantifying total exposed data volume and sensitivity.
Attempt data exfiltration via every available channel — corporate email, personal webmail via browser, USB, cloud sync agents, print, screengrab, Teams/Slack file transfers, and web upload — recording precisely which channels DLP controls catch versus miss.
Attempt to expand access beyond the assigned role — social engineering the help desk for password resets, exploiting misconfigured RBAC in cloud platforms, and abusing over-privileged shared service accounts.
Correlate all simulated insider activity against SIEM alert telemetry to measure detection rate per channel — producing a precise coverage percentage and mean time-to-detect for caught activity.
Cross-reference findings against your Acceptable Use Policy, DLP configuration, off-boarding checklist, and contractor access review procedures — identifying where governance controls need strengthening.
Quantified assessment: data accessible per persona, total volume, sensitivity classification, and channels that bypassed DLP controls.
Specific rule additions, classification label fixes, and threshold changes for your deployed DLP platform — based on techniques that actually bypassed your controls.
Every insider activity type that generated no alert — with Sigma-compatible detection rule suggestions for each gap, ready to deploy.
Policy and procedural improvements: off-boarding checklists, contractor access review cadence, and Acceptable Use Policy gaps identified during the assessment.
Most organisations have never measured what a trusted employee can actually reach — and export. We change that.
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