Red team assessment
Simulate advanced adversaries to test your organisation's detection and response capabilities. Our red team assessments go beyond traditional penetration testing to give a realistic evaluation of your security posture.
What is red teaming?
Red team assessments are adversarial simulations designed to test your detection and response capabilities against sophisticated attacks. Unlike traditional penetration testing, red team operations aim to achieve specific objectives while remaining undetected, mimicking the behaviour of advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Our red team uses the same tools, techniques and procedures as real-world threat actors to test your defences across people, processes and technology. This shows how well your security programme would perform during an actual breach.
Capabilities
Advanced Threat Simulation
Our red team mimics sophisticated threat actors using advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) based on real-world attack patterns. Includes APT simulation, Multi-stage attacks, Custom exploit development, Zero-day simulation.
Social Engineering
Test your human defenses through phishing campaigns, pretexting, and physical social engineering tactics. Includes Spear phishing, Vishing attacks, USB drop attacks, Tailgating attempts.
Physical Security
Assess physical security controls including access control systems, surveillance, and security awareness. Includes Badge cloning, Lock picking, Security camera evasion, Unauthorized access testing.
Detection & Response Testing
Evaluate your security monitoring and incident response capabilities against sophisticated attacks. Includes SIEM evasion, EDR bypass, Alert fatigue testing, Response time assessment.
Full attack lifecycle
Our exercises follow the complete attack chain, from initial compromise to objective achievement, based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Initial Access
Gain initial foothold through various attack vectors. Typical tactics: Phishing campaigns, Exploit public-facing applications, Supply chain compromise, Valid account compromise.
Execution
Run malicious code and establish control. Typical tactics: Command-line interface, PowerShell execution, Scheduled tasks, User execution simulation.
Persistence
Maintain access across system restarts. Typical tactics: Registry modification, Scheduled tasks, Boot/logon autostart, Valid accounts.
Privilege Escalation
Obtain higher-level permissions. Typical tactics: Token manipulation, Process injection, Exploitation for privilege escalation, Valid accounts.
Defense Evasion
Avoid detection by security controls. Typical tactics: Obfuscation, Process injection, Masquerading, Disable security tools.
Credential Access
Steal account credentials. Typical tactics: Credential dumping, Input capture, Brute force, Password spraying.
Lateral Movement
Move through the network to reach objectives. Typical tactics: Pass the hash, Remote services, Internal spearphishing, Replication through removable media.
Exfiltration
Extract data from the environment. Typical tactics: Data compression, Exfiltration over C2, Exfiltration over web service, Transfer data to cloud.
Assessment objectives
Test Detection Capabilities
Evaluate how well your security monitoring tools and SOC team detect sophisticated attacks.
Assess Response Effectiveness
Measure the speed and effectiveness of your incident response procedures under realistic attack scenarios.
Identify Control Gaps
Uncover weaknesses in security controls that might be exploited by advanced threat actors.
Validate Security Investments
Demonstrate the effectiveness of your security technology stack and identify areas for improvement.
What you will receive
- Comprehensive red team report with executive summary
- Detailed timeline of all attack activities
- MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping
- Detection and response gap analysis
- Security control effectiveness assessment
- Strategic recommendations for improvement
- Purple team debrief session with blue team
- Custom IOCs and detection signatures
Before you start
Red team assessments are intensive and need careful planning and coordination. We recommend having a mature security programme in place, including:
- Active security monitoring (SIEM/SOC)
- Incident response procedures and team
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) deployed
- Executive buy-in and a defined scope of engagement
Test your defences
Ready to see how your security programme performs against advanced threats? Contact us to discuss a red team assessment.