Red Teaming: Think Like an Attacker, Defend Like a Pro
Red Teaming is a full-scale, real-world simulation of a cyberattack that goes beyond the scope of standard security tests. Our experts use the same tactics as advanced adversaries to find weaknesses others miss and provide realistic, actionable insights.
Unlike a penetration test, Red Teaming challenges your entire security ecosystem—people, processes, and technology.
Why Red Teaming Matters
- Realistic Insights: Understand exactly how attackers break in and move through your environment, and the actual damage they can inflict.
- Maximized ROI: Verify your security investments by prioritizing the most critical gaps.
- Strategic Defense: Align security efforts with broader business goals for lasting protection.
- Proactive Resilience: Anticipate evolving threats with ongoing, adversarial-style testing.
When you see your environment through an attacker’s eyes, you can defend it more effectively.
Test Your Full Attack Surface
Beyond technology alone
While red team activities tend to be mostly technical in nature they can, based on requirements, encompass more of your possible attack surface.
Technology
Technical attacks are used against networks, applications, APIs, IoT devices and more.
Physical
Various techniques and tactics can be used to identify vulnerabilities in offices, data centres and warehouses.
People
Social engineering and other techniques are used to identify vulnerabilities in staff, contractors and third parties.
Our Red Team Process
Our red teaming process is the product of experience and an ongoing commitment to incorporate new tactics, techniques, and procedures into our work.
Set a Goal:
What's the objective of the red team?
It could be obtaining access to confidential data, simulate ransomware, gaining access to a CEO's inbox, or having the potential to shut down a facility. Clearly defined, business relevant objectives are required.
Initial Reconnaissance
Information is gathered from a variety of sources to build up a profile of the target and identify possible points of entry.
Stealth is often required so the team will take steps to obfuscate any tooling so as not to alert the SOC or any other security solutions.
Staging and Weaponization
Once vulnerabilities are identified, an attack plan is formed including setting up command infrastructure and customized domains for operations like phishing.
C2 infrastructure is designed to evade detection and a variety of methods can be used to deliver the initial payload.
Attack Delivery
The team executes their attack plan by exploiting vulnerabilities, using methods such as remote asset compromise, social engineering, payload delivery, and credential exploitation.
Internal Compromise
Once access to the target environment is obtained the emphasis shifts to moving within the environment, establishing more access, and compromising additional systems.
Reconnaissance is ongoing - new targets are found and exploited as required in order to achieve the project objectives.
Clean Up
All tooling is removed and connections shut down. No trace of the testing activity remains.
Reporting
Typically we deliver an executive report and a technical report. The executive report explains what was found at a high level and what the impact is. The technical report provides full details of how we did what we did along along detailed guidance on how to remeidate what was found.
Mitre ATT&CK references are provided for all activities.
Goals and scenarios
We have assisted clients through a diverse array of red team scenarios to test specific business and security objectives. Here are some examples.
Cyber
Can a cyber attack inflict massive financial losses on a fortune 10 company?
Ransomware
Is ransomware able to evade our security controls?
Threat
Can our food production environment be shut down by a cyber attack?
