Red Teaming
Red teaming focuses on breaching an environment undetected while maintaining access to evaluate your incident response team's effectiveness in identifying and handling threats. A red team testing is the ultimate way to launch a safe but realistic attack simulation to evaluate the resilience of your organization at every step of the attack chain. This type of testing involves penetration testers and specialized red team tools to assess risks to IT assets, measure current security capabilities, support security investment decisions, enhance team skills, and refine detection controls.
The Importance of Red Teaming
Red team services evaluate your organization's performance throughout every phase of a cyber attack, from initial reconnaissance to full exploitation. This comprehensive assessment provides deep insights into your attack surface and the effectiveness of your security measures, processes, and personnel.
Through a red team assessment, you will test:
- The resilience of your attack surface
- The effectiveness of your threat detection methods based on different attack methods
- The efficiency of your response processes
- The awareness and preparedness of your team
Our Approach
Red Team Testing requires specific methods compared to traditional penetration testing as it is usually a long-term assessment which is based on a broad range of attack methods to test your organisation's detection and response. We have established an already proven methodology which has been built based on the latest industry standards and years of experience in the field. During the testing we leverage tactics, techniques, and procedures used by real-world attackers to better understand exposures and your ability to respond to threats. During our red team testing,we closely collaborate with you to define the rules of engagement, project objectives and directly report on potential threats, aiming to improve your security posture as soon as possible. We conduct our red teaming assessment based on the following steps:
- Reconnaissance: We utilize a diverse set of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) techniques to gather comprehensive information about your organization. This includes open source intelligence (OSINT), financial intelligence (FININT), technical intelligence (TECHINT), and human intelligence (HUMINT). This data helps us pinpoint potential targets and devise our attack strategies.
- Exploitation, Installation, Command, and Control: After gaining initial access, we work towards achieving the defined objectives of your red team assessment. This phase tests whether an attacker could successfully reach their goals. We also simulate various threat actors, such as a disgruntled employee or an intruder with physical access, to explore different attack scenarios.
- Weaponization and Delivery: Using the intelligence gathered, we execute the attack on your organization. Depending on the assessment’s scope, we might employ tactics such as phishing emails, SMiShing (SMS phishing), physical entry, or Command and Control activities to exploit vulnerabilities and gain network access.
- Continuous Reporting: Throughout the red team assessment, we provide detailed reports on each phase, offering transparency into any vulnerabilities or weaknesses within your systems or personnel. This allows you to address these issues and enhance your security defenses effectively.
Key Features of Our Red Teaming Services
- External Breach Red Teaming: Simulating a complete external breach to test your organization’s perimeter defenses and response capabilities.
- Perimeter Testing: Assessing the effectiveness of your perimeter defenses.
- Incident Response: Evaluating your organization’s ability to detect and respond to external attacks.
- Purple Teaming: Combining Red Team and Blue Team efforts to enhance your security posture through collaborative testing and training.
- Joint Exercises: Conducting joint Red and Blue Team exercises to improve threat detection and response.
- Knowledge Sharing: Facilitating knowledge sharing between teams to enhance overall security.
- Assumed Breach: Simulating a breach scenario to evaluate your organization’s incident response capabilities.
- Breach Simulation: Creating realistic breach scenarios to test your response.
- Post-Breach Analysis: Providing detailed analysis and recommendations for improving incident response.
- Security Awareness: Testing your organization’s ability to detect and respond to simulated attacks.
- Phishing Simulations: Conducting email, SMS, and voice phishing campaigns to test employee awareness and response.
- Social Engineering: Evaluating the effectiveness of your social engineering defenses.
- Physical Security Assessment: Assessing the physical security of your facilities to identify weaknesses that could be exploited by attackers.
- Access Controls: Evaluating the effectiveness of physical access controls.
- Surveillance: Assessing the adequacy of surveillance systems.
- Voice Phishing: Simulating voice phishing attacks to test your organization’s response to fraudulent phone calls.
- Scenario Development: Creating realistic scenarios to test employee response.
- Response Evaluation: Assessing how effectively your employees handle voice phishing attempts.
- SMS Phishing: Conducting SMS phishing attacks to evaluate your organization's response to malicious text messages.
- Delivery Mechanisms: Testing different delivery mechanisms to identify the most effective methods.
- Employee Training: Providing feedback and training to improve employee awareness.
- Email Phishing: Simulating email phishing attacks to test the effectiveness of your email security measures.
- Phishing Campaigns: Designing and executing phishing campaigns to identify vulnerabilities.
- Reporting and Remediation: Providing detailed reports and recommendations for improving email security.
- Social Engineering: Assessing your organization’s susceptibility to social engineering attacks.
- In-Person Testing: Conducting in-person social engineering tests to identify weaknesses.
- Remote Testing: Simulating remote social engineering attacks to evaluate your defenses.
Detailed Reporting and Remediation Guidance
Our detailed penetration testing report is written in understandable terms and provides clear and actionable information about identified vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and recommended remediation steps. This allows your team to quickly understand and start addressing issues immediately.
- Executive Summary: High-level overview of the findings aimed for management and delivered shortly after the assessment.
- Technical Details: In-depth reporting with details at every step of our penetration testing services, helping your technical teams replicate the vectors easily and remediate swiftly.
- Report Readout: We provide report read out for your management, accelerating the understanding of the report and clarifying any unclarities on the spot.
- Remediation Guidance: Post-pentest step-by-step support and guidance on how to fix identified vulnerabilities and accelerate the remediation
- Free Retesting: Following the remediation of identified vulnerabilities, we offer a free retesting of all the vulnerabilities to ensure everything has been remediated.
Why Work With Us
Our team of experienced security professionals brings deep knowledge and experience of application security and the latest threat landscapes. We operate as your internal team, seeking to always understand the challenges you face and ensure you solve them, always. Work with us and experience open and transparent communication throughout the testing process providing real-time updates and insights. This collaborative approach ensures that you are always informed and can prioritize remediation efforts.
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Security Awareness
Cybersecurity awareness refers to the mindfulness of the employees and contractors within an organization with regards to the potential cyber threats and risks they face, as well as the practices and behaviors needed to mitigate these risks.
Physical Penetration Testing
Cybersecurity is obviously not only the digital aspect of it. Physical security is usually overlooked when conducting security assessment although the risk where intruders can gain access to hardware remains high.
Voice Phishing
Since the early days of telecommunication, voice phishing—also known as vishing—has been a prevalent cyberattack technique where attackers impersonate trusted individuals or organizations over the phone to trick people into revealing sensitive information.
SMS Phishing
Since the rise of mobile communication, SMS phishing—also known as smishing—has become a widespread cyberattack technique where attackers pose as trusted entities through text messages to deceive individuals into revealing sensitive information.
Email Phishing
Since the early days of the internet, email phishing has been a constant cyberattack method where attackers impersonate trusted entities or individuals in email communications to deceive people into revealing sensitive information.
Social Engineering
Our Social Engineering services help you proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities by simulating real-world social engineering attacks, ensuring robust protection against human-based security threats.
Purple Teaming
Our Purple Teaming services help you proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities by combining the strengths of both Red Team and Blue Team approaches, ensuring a holistic and robust defense against cyber threats.
Assumed Breach
Our Assumed Breach services help you proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities by simulating scenarios where attackers have already gained access to your network, ensuring robust protection and incident response capabilities.
External Breach
Our External Breach services help you proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities by simulating real-world external attack scenarios, ensuring robust protection against threats originating from outside your network.