Target Assessments

Before an adversary acts, they choose. They look at your organization and decide what's worth hitting, where you're softest, and how they'd get in. Most security programs never do that exercise from the attacker's side, so they defend everything evenly and miss the two or three assets a real adversary would actually go after.

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A target assessment runs that analysis for you. We model your organization the way someone planning an attack would, identify what they'd prioritize and why, and map the paths they'd take to reach it. You find out what you actually need to protect before someone else decides for you.

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Adversary-Based, Not Checklist-Based

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This is the difference between a target assessment and a standard audit. An audit checks your facility against a list of controls. A target assessment starts from the attacker's objective and works backward, which surfaces attack paths a control-based review never considers.

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We assess across the full picture an adversary would study:

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• Physical reconnaissance of your facilities, access points, and perimeter

• Your organization's digital footprint and what it reveals to an attacker

• OSINT gathering on your locations, operations, and exposure

• The attack paths that connect an outside position to your critical assets

• Where physical access could become network access, and the reverse

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Prioritized With CARVER

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We use CARVER, a target-analysis methodology developed for exactly this purpose, to score your assets the way an adversary would weigh them. Criticality, accessibility, recoverability, vulnerability, effect, and recognizability. Instead of a flat list of everything that could theoretically be a problem, you get a ranked picture of what a real attacker would actually target first.

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That prioritization is the whole point. It tells you where to put your resources, because it tells you where the genuine threat is concentrated rather than spread evenly across a hundred low-probability findings.

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The OSINT Layer

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Attackers don't start at your fence. They start at their keyboard, mapping what your organization exposes publicly, employee information, facility details, operational patterns, technology, vendor relationships. By the time they show up in person, they already know your layout.

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Our target assessments include that same open-source intelligence gathering, so you see your organization the way an adversary sees it before they ever approach. What you're leaking publicly is often the first thing to fix, and it's invisible until someone looks.

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Where This Fits

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A target assessment tells you what an adversary would target and how they'd approach it. If you want the gaps in a specific facility inventoried in detail, that's our physical vulnerability assessment. If you want us to actually attempt the intrusion and prove the paths are real, that's physical penetration testing. Target assessment is the strategic layer that tells you where to point the other two.

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See Yourself the Way an Attacker Does

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Tell us what your organization looks like and what you're protecting. We'll model how an adversary would approach it and show you what they'd go after first.

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