Know your adversary—before they move
A tailored, intelligence-driven, no-cost threat model that shows how real attackers would most likely target your organization—before a single exploit is run. No checklists. No vulnerability dumping. No compliance theater.
THE NO-COST (HIGH-VALUE) DELIVERABLE
MOST RELEVANT THREAT ACTORS
Identification of the adversary classes most likely to target your organization, aligned to incentive and capability.
criminal
insider
hybrid
state-sponsored
LIKELY OBJECTIVES
Objective-driven modeling—what they want, why it matters, and how they achieve it with minimal noise.
access
persistence
exfiltration
disruption
INITIAL ACCESS PATHS
High-confidence entry points based on real tradecraft: identity edges, third-party trust, and workflow seams.
identity
SaaS Trust
cloud
business-logic
PROBABLE ATTACK-PATH
A realistic campaign hypothesis showing how an adversary progresses from entry to impact—favoring stealth and objective pursuit over brute-force exploitation.
recon → access → escalation → lateral → objective
STRATEGIC OBSERVATIONS
Clear statements about where risk actually lives: trust boundaries, assumptions, detection blind spots, and control failures that won’t surface in point-in-time testing.
signal over volume
tradecraft over tools
executive-ready
HOW IT WORKS
Deliberate, controlled, and operator-led. Designed to be useful even if we never work together again.
ENGAGEMENT FLOW
Fit Check (20-30 Minutes)
Confirm scope boundaries, environment context.
Model the Adversary
Threat actors, objectives, access vectors, and plausible attack chains aligned to your organization.
Executive Readout
One-page brief + discussion. Clarity first. No "findings dump."
Next Step (optional)
If warranted: threat-aligned continuous adversarial testing to validate and pressure-test these paths over time.
WHAT THIS IS NOT
not a vulnerability scan
not a compliance report
not a pentest
not a sales demo
no automated noise
no generic frameworks
WHY WE START HERE
Most breaches exploit seams—between identity, SaaS trust, people, and process. Modeling the adversary first makes subsequent testing precise, relevant, and operational
FIT AND SELECTION
GOOD FIT
Organizations that care about how adversaries actually operate; want signal over volume; and are evaluating a long-term adversarial testing partner
NOT A FIT
Teams seeking a free vulnerability-list, a compliance artifact, or a scanner output. Darkthorn CyberOPS does not compete in commodity assessment markets.
✔ Security leadership involved
✔ Operational urgency
✔ Clear decision path
