Test your defence and response through red teaming.
Red teaming goes further than just testing your defences, it also tests your response and recovery as part of a simulated cyber attack.
What is Red Teaming?
Red team operations give organisations a way to proactively uncover, understand and fix security risks before threat actors can exploit them. Our UK-based Red team adopt an adversarial lens, to help them identify security vulnerabilities that real attackers are most likely to exploit. Our proactive, adversarial approach ensures you strengthen the security of your systems and protect sensitive data even in the face of evolving cyberthreats. Our service ensures that you can be confident in the security of your digital infrastructure, keeping your business secure in an ever-evolving threat landscape.
What's included
Scope Reconnaissance
We start by clarifying the engagement’s boundaries, determining the assets, networks and applications most critical to your operations.
Intelligence Gathering
Our specialists perform detailed research and open-source intelligence, identifying potential entry points and relevant adversary tactics.
Adversarial Simulation
We emulate real-world attackers by using stealthy techniques, challenging your security measures with tactics such as social engineering and targeted exploits.
Response Evaluation
We monitor how quickly and effectively your internal teams spot and respond to suspicious activity, revealing any weaknesses in your detection processes.
Detailed Documentation
We provide clear, actionable reports, outlining what worked, where defences fell short and what steps are needed to close gaps.
Remediation Guidance
Our experts offer prioritised recommendations, helping you strengthen your security posture based on risk and business objectives.
Your Challenges
Overconfidence
Many SMBs are over-confident in their controls because they have never been tested in a real-world attack. This leads to under-investment and more vulnerabilities.
Blind Spots
Organisations often miss advanced threats due to their sophisticated nature creating blind spots in their ability to detect and respond to real world attack scenarios.
Advanced Persistent Threats
Nation-states and organised crime are on the rise and are relentless in their attack and evasion techniques. Red Teaming mirrors these persistent tactics deployed, testing how well an organisation will actually respond.
Protection vs. Response
Invariably, most SMBs focus too much on protection rather than response or recovery capabilities. In a world where being targeted is inevitable, testing your ability to respond is crucial to building resilience.
Overconfidence
Many SMBs are over-confident in their controls because they have never been tested in a real-world attack. This leads to under-investment and more vulnerabilities.
Blind Spots
Organisations often miss advanced threats due to their sophisticated nature creating blind spots in their ability to detect and respond to real world attack scenarios.
Advanced Persistent Threats
Nation-states and organised crime are on the rise and are relentless in their attack and evasion techniques. Red Teaming mirrors these persistent tactics deployed, testing how well an organisation will actually respond.
Protection vs. Response
Invariably, most SMBs focus too much on protection rather than response or recovery capabilities. In a world where being targeted is inevitable, testing your ability to respond is crucial to building resilience.
What Our Clients Say
Benefits
Our Red Teaming service empowers you to rigorously test both your ability to protect your assets, and respond / recover when crisis hits.
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Real-World Attacks
Red Teaming offers a realistic simulation of your ability to respond to real-wold cyber attacks testing not only technical controls but also response process and procedures.
Hidden Vulnerabilities
Standard penetration tests are great to uncover first line security gaps, however, Red Teaming goes a layer deeper to uncover deeper more advanced vulnerabilities in your network and processes.
Incident Response
Incident response is the most critical component to your cyber security. Red Teaming tests your incident response processes in real-time, evaluating you against a simulated real-world attack.
Validate Security Investments
Red Teaming provides actionable insights that demonstrate whether your existing security tools and processes are delivering value and providing the return on investment you expect.
Increasing Regulatory Focus
Regulatory demands are continually increasing and evolving, with many now specifically stating penetration tests and red teams are an explicit requirement.
Future-Proof Resiliency
The cyber threat landscape is highly dynamic, with threat actors switching up their strategies daily to catch organisations off-guard. Red teaming ensures you are always staying one step ahead of the attackers.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a Blue or Purple Team?
Red teams simulate threat hunting attacks to test organisations’ security effectiveness. Blue teams defend organisations from attacks and simulate incident response processes. Purple teams blend both roles as a mixed team or facilitate collaboration between the other two.
- How does Red Team testing security work?
Generally, it involves 8 steps to scope up and deliver Red teaming outcomes:
- Define Objectives: set clear testing objectives aligned to your business strategy and technology set up.
- Gather Intelligence: Understand the risks and threats in your environment and business context.
- Threat Modelling: Create real world attack simulations aligned to the intelligence captured.
- Planning and Rules of Engagement: Documenting a clear test plan, attack scenarios, roadmap and timelines
- Execution of Attacks: Delivering the simulated attacks.
- Detailed Documentation: Document the findings, results and recommendations.
- Continuous Improvement and Feedback: Review and update the service to ensure ongoing optimisation.
- Post Test Analysis and Lessons Learnt: Hold briefing session on gaps and recommendations based on the testing performed.
- What are common Red Teaming Tactics?
Red teams use many tools and techniques that are available to malicious hackers. Some tools and tactics are:
- Application and network penetration testing
- Physical security testing
- Intercepting communication
- Phishing
- Social engineering
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