Advanced adversary simulation testing your organization's detection and response capabilities across people, process, and technology.
Red Team assessments simulate real-world adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by advanced persistent threats (APTs) and sophisticated threat actors. Unlike traditional penetration testing focused on finding vulnerabilities, Red Team operations test your organization's ability to detect, respond to, and contain a realistic cyber attack across multiple vectors.
Our Red Team exercises are goal-oriented engagements designed to mirror the behavior of actual attackers, including reconnaissance, social engineering, physical intrusion, and exploitation of technical vulnerabilities. We operate covertly to test your security operations center (SOC), incident response team, and security controls in a realistic scenario.
Understanding the difference helps you choose the right security assessment for your needs.
Our Red Team operations employ a comprehensive range of attack vectors and techniques.
Starting from an internal foothold to test your ability to detect and contain lateral movement and data exfiltration.
Full attack chain from external reconnaissance through initial access to achieving strategic objectives while evading detection.
Multi-vector campaigns including phishing, vishing, and physical pretexting to test human defenses and awareness.
On-site testing including tailgating, badge cloning, lock picking, and unauthorized access to restricted areas.
Targeting AWS, Azure, and GCP to test cloud security controls, IAM configurations, and data protection.
Exploiting mobile devices, wireless networks, and IoT devices to gain initial access or move laterally.
Simulating attacks through trusted vendors and service providers to test vendor risk management.
Testing data loss prevention controls and the ability to detect unauthorized access to sensitive information.
Our Red Team operations follow industry-standard frameworks and real-world attacker methodologies.
Defining clear goals, rules of engagement, scope boundaries, and emergency stop procedures.
Passive and active intelligence gathering using OSINT, social media, and network scanning.
Gaining first foothold via phishing, external vulnerabilities, or supply chain compromise.
Ensuring continued access through backdoors and covert channels that evade detection.
Elevating privileges through exploitation, credential theft, or misconfiguration.
Moving through the network using pass-the-hash and token impersonation while avoiding detection.
Accomplishing defined goals such as accessing sensitive data or compromising critical systems.
Comprehensive reporting on tactics used, gaps identified, and strategic recommendations.
Our Red Team operations map to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the globally-recognized knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques.
Techniques used to gain initial foothold including phishing and exploiting public-facing applications.
Validating detection of malicious code execution via PowerShell, scripting, and scheduled tasks.
Testing identification of techniques used to maintain access across reboots and credential changes.
Attempting to gain higher-level permissions through exploitation and token manipulation.
Testing techniques to avoid detection including obfuscation and disabling security tools.
Attempting to steal credentials through dumping, brute force, and network sniffing.
Testing detection of reconnaissance activities including network scanning and account discovery.
Validating monitoring of techniques used to move through the network via remote services.
Testing identification of data gathering activities including screen capture and keylogging.
Attempting to steal data through various channels while testing DLP and egress monitoring.
Red Team operations provide visibility into the full effectiveness of your security program.
Validate whether your SOC, SIEM, EDR, and monitoring tools detect sophisticated attack techniques in real-time.
Measure your team's ability to respond to, contain, and remediate a real attack scenario.
Experience how actual threat actors operate, from initial compromise to objective achievement.
Identify which controls are effective and which need improvement for data-driven budget decisions.
Uncover systemic weaknesses across people, processes, and technology that traditional testing misses.
Provide hands-on experience for your security and incident response teams in real-world conditions.
Comprehensive documentation and strategic guidance to improve your security program.
High-level assessment of security posture, successful attack paths, and strategic recommendations for leadership.
Detailed documentation of TTPs used, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK with evidence and indicators of compromise.
Comprehensive review of what was detected versus missed, identifying blind spots in monitoring.
Visual representation of the complete attack path from initial compromise to objective achievement.
Prioritized recommendations for improving detection, response, and prevention capabilities.
Interactive workshops with your security team to review findings and discuss defensive strategies.
Experience how your organization would fare against a sophisticated adversary. Let's discuss your Red Team engagement.