APT & Ransomware Emulation

ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT SIMULATION

APT Emulation — Banking Threat Archetypes

Simulates long-dwell, stealth-focused adversaries to validate whether identity compromise, privilege abuse, and lateral movement are detected before persistent access is established.

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Identity-centric adversaries — credential abuse, token misuse, and persistence across AD, Entra ID, and SaaS IAM

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Hybrid enterprise attackers — web app, API, cloud IAM, and internal privilege chain abuse

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Financially motivated intrusion — fraud enablement, sensitive data access, and monetisation paths

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Payment system targeting — SWIFT access paths, settlement systems, and high-value credential abuse

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Full lifecycle adversaries — end-to-end ATT&CK coverage validating overall red and blue team maturity

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APT

ATT&CK

IDENTITY

BANKING

BANKING APT ARCHETYPES

Identity-Centric Long-Dwell Operators

Stealth

Hybrid Enterprise & Financial Attackers

Cloud

Financially Motivated Intrusion Groups

Fraud

Payment & Settlement System Targeting

Banking

PRE-ENCRYPTION BEHAVIOURAL SIMULATION

Ransomware Lifecycle Emulation

Emulates the full ransomware attack lifecycle — from initial access through staging and pre-impact preparation — validating detection and containment before encryption occurs.

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Initial access & escalation — credential abuse, exposed services, privilege escalation, and credential dumping

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Lateral movement — traversal to high-value systems, domain controllers, and backup infrastructure

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C2 & staging — command-and-control establishment, data staging, and exfiltration preparation

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Pre-impact actions — backup discovery, recovery-path enumeration, and control-disabling behaviour

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No destructive execution — no encryption routines, no irreversible modification, no live malware

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RANSOMWARE

PRE-ENCRYPTION

RAAS

LOTL

RANSOMWARE BEHAVIOURAL MODELS

Rapid-Impact Operators

Speed

Enterprise Ransomware — Lateral & C2

Dwell

Automation-Driven Ransomware

Scale

Cross-Platform Hybrid Attackers

Multi-OS

RaaS Affiliates — Living-off-the-Land

Evasion

END-TO-END DETECTION VALIDATION

Full ATT&CK Lifecycle Coverage

Validates detection and response across every stage of the adversary lifecycle — emphasising multi-stage correlation over single-alert detection.

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Initial access — credential abuse, exposed service exploitation, phishing-based entry

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Identity & privilege abuse — escalation, trust-chain manipulation, token and session misuse

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Lateral movement — east-west traversal, segmentation bypass, high-value system targeting

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C2 & exfiltration — beaconing over HTTP/HTTPS/DNS, staging, and covert data movement

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Impact preparation — backup discovery, recovery disabling, pre-encryption indicators

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MITRE ATT&CK

MULTI-STAGE

CORRELATION

ATT&CK LIFECYCLE STAGES

Initial Access & Execution

Entry

Privilege Escalation & Persistence

Establish

Lateral Movement & Discovery

Expand

Command & Control

Sustain

Exfiltration & Impact Preparation

Objective

BLUE TEAM & EVIDENCE-BASED ASSURANCE

SOC Enablement & Metrics

Strengthens SOC and blue-team capability through controlled observation, purple-team alignment, and ATT&CK-mapped evidence-based metrics.

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Purple-team alignment — red execution mapped directly to blue detection and response outcomes

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Detection gap analysis — technique coverage, visibility gaps, and correlation effectiveness

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Response metrics — time-to-detect, time-to-contain, escalation accuracy, and SOAR reliability

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Executive reporting — ATT&CK heatmaps, attack-path narratives, and audit-ready evidence

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PURPLE TEAM

TTD / TTC

SOAR

ATT&CK MAP

EMULATION METRICS & EVIDENCE

Technique Coverage & Visibility Gaps

Coverage

Time-to-Detect (TTD)

Speed

Time-to-Contain (TTC)

Response

Correlation & Response Reliability

Assurance

Our Approach

NetSentries employs a robust and versatile testing methodology that transcends conventional limitations. Our approach is designed to accommodate diverse segmentation techniques, extending beyond the confines of traditional firewall rule-based isolation. This methodology validates effectiveness of segmentation controls achieved through strategies like:

Physical Segmentation
Layer 2 and Layer 3 Security Controls
Micro Segmentation
Micro Segmentation with SDN and Zero Trust
Hypervisor and Cloud Security Controls

PCIDSS segmentation testing

PCI-DSS Segmentation Penetration Testing starts with a scoping exercise to identify the VLAN segments to be included from CDE and non-CDE environments. Typically, all VLANs of the CDE environment are added to the scope, and a set of VLANs from non-CDE environments will be handpicked, considering the threat landscape of the client. Physical connectivity, wireless connectivity, and virtualized connectivity options in the environment are considered for defining the scope and test cases of segmentation testing.

Segmentation testing for SWIFT CSP

SWIFT CSP mandates two levels of segmentation controls to isolate SWIFT applications from the rest of the infrastructure.
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1.There should be proper segmentation between your SWIFT environment and other networks.
2.There should be segmentation controls in place between the components of your swift environment.

NetSentries Segmentation Penetration Testing ensures that SWIFT-CSP-mandated segmentation controls are effectively implemented.

In depth Segmentation control validation

Segmentation Penetration Testing is not just about rule testing of firewalls. As part of the assessment, NetSentries measures the effectiveness of different kinds of segmentation methods ranging from L2 and L3 components, routers, firewalls, host modules, security gateways, micro segmentation with Zero Trust, Hypervisor-specific segmentation methods like VMware NSX, Cloud Security Provider segmentation features etc.