Advanced simulated attacks that test your organization's detection and response capabilities against sophisticated threats, providing a real-world assessment of your security posture.
Red Team exercises are advanced, multi-layered simulated attacks designed to test an organization's security controls, detection capabilities, and incident response procedures against real-world threats. Unlike traditional penetration testing, Red Team exercises are more comprehensive, stealthy, and goal-oriented.
Our Red Team operates like sophisticated threat actors, employing a combination of technical exploits, social engineering, physical security testing, and other tactics to achieve specific objectives—such as accessing sensitive data, compromising critical systems, or establishing persistent access—while evading detection.
These exercises provide invaluable insights into your organization's security posture by revealing how your defensive measures (your "Blue Team") perform against realistic attack scenarios, helping you identify and address gaps in your security before real adversaries can exploit them.
Discover how our Red Team exercises can strengthen your organization's security posture.
Experience attacks that mirror the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by real-world threat actors targeting your industry, providing a more accurate assessment of your security posture.
Test your security monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to ensure they can effectively detect and respond to sophisticated attacks before significant damage occurs.
Discover the most likely paths attackers would take to compromise your critical assets, allowing you to prioritize security investments and remediation efforts more effectively.
Provide your security operations team with valuable hands-on experience detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks, improving their skills and readiness for real incidents.
Provide tangible evidence of security vulnerabilities and their potential business impact, helping to secure executive buy-in for security initiatives and investments.
Satisfy advanced security testing requirements for various regulatory frameworks and industry standards, demonstrating due diligence in protecting sensitive data and systems.
A structured approach to simulating real-world attacks against your organization.
We begin by gathering intelligence about your organization, identifying potential targets, and developing a comprehensive attack strategy based on your specific objectives and constraints. This phase includes passive reconnaissance, OSINT gathering, and target identification.
Our team attempts to gain a foothold in your environment using various techniques, such as phishing campaigns, exploiting external vulnerabilities, social engineering, or physical security breaches. We employ stealthy tactics to avoid detection, just as real attackers would.
Once inside, we establish persistence mechanisms to maintain access and begin moving laterally through your network, escalating privileges, and compromising additional systems while evading detection. We document all potential attack paths and security control bypasses.
We work to achieve the predefined objectives, such as accessing sensitive data, compromising specific systems, or demonstrating the potential for business impact. All activities are conducted within the agreed-upon scope and with appropriate safeguards to prevent actual damage.
We provide comprehensive documentation of our activities, findings, and recommendations. This includes a detailed technical report, an executive summary, and a debrief session to discuss the results and next steps for improving your security posture.
We work with your security team to review the findings, discuss detection opportunities, and develop remediation strategies. This collaborative approach ensures knowledge transfer and helps your team better understand how to detect and respond to similar attacks in the future.
Customized approaches to meet your specific security testing needs.
A comprehensive assessment that tests your organization's security across all vectors, including technical, physical, and human elements.
Focused assessment targeting specific critical assets, systems, or data within your organization.
Simulation of specific threat actors known to target your industry, using their documented tactics, techniques, and procedures.
A real-world example of how our Red Team exercises uncover critical security gaps.
A leading financial services provider engaged our Red Team to assess their security posture and test their detection and response capabilities. The objective was to gain access to their core banking systems and exfiltrate sensitive customer data without being detected.
The exercise revealed critical gaps in the organization's security controls, detection capabilities, and incident response procedures. Our team provided detailed recommendations for addressing these issues, including improvements to their phishing defenses, vulnerability management program, network segmentation, privilege management, and security monitoring.
Following the implementation of our recommendations, a follow-up assessment six months later showed significant improvements in the organization's security posture, with our Red Team being detected and contained within hours of initial access.
What sets our Red Team services apart from other security testing providers.
Our Red Team consists of highly skilled security professionals with backgrounds in offensive security, threat intelligence, and incident response. Many team members hold advanced certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, CRTP, and have experience in offensive security roles.
This diverse expertise allows us to simulate sophisticated attacks while providing practical, actionable recommendations for improving your security posture.
We don't just run automated tools or follow a standard checklist. Our Red Team develops custom attack scenarios based on your specific threat landscape, industry, and business objectives.
We leverage the latest threat intelligence and emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by real-world threat actors targeting your industry, providing a more accurate assessment of your security posture.
We believe in the value of collaboration between Red and Blue teams. Our engagements include knowledge transfer sessions and purple team exercises to help your security team understand how attacks were executed and how they can better detect and respond to similar threats.
This collaborative approach ensures that your team gains valuable insights and skills that extend beyond the scope of the assessment.
Our reports go beyond simply listing vulnerabilities. We provide detailed attack narratives, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and clear, actionable recommendations prioritized by risk and implementation effort.
We also offer executive-level reporting that translates technical findings into business risks, helping you communicate the value of security investments to stakeholders across your organization.
Common questions about our Red Team exercises and services.
While both Red Team exercises and penetration tests aim to identify security vulnerabilities, they differ significantly in scope, approach, and objectives:
Both types of assessments are valuable and often complementary, with penetration testing providing breadth of coverage and Red Team exercises providing depth and realism.
We take several precautions to minimize the risk of disruption during Red Team exercises:
Our experienced Red Team operators understand the balance between realistic testing and operational safety, and will always prioritize the stability of your environment.
The frequency of Red Team exercises depends on several factors, including your organization's size, industry, threat landscape, regulatory requirements, and rate of change in your IT environment. However, as a general guideline:
We can help you develop a testing schedule that aligns with your specific security needs, risk tolerance, and budget constraints.
To ensure a successful and valuable Red Team exercise, we recommend the following preparations:
Our team will guide you through this preparation process to ensure the exercise is conducted safely, legally, and with maximum value to your organization.
The success of a Red Team exercise is measured against its objectives, which typically include:
It's important to note that a "successful" Red Team breach doesn't indicate failure on your part—it provides valuable insights into how real attackers might target your organization and helps you prioritize security improvements. The true measure of success is how your security posture improves following the exercise.
Contact our team today to discuss how our Red Team exercises can help you identify and address security vulnerabilities before real attackers can exploit them.