Red Teaming

Red teaming is a goal-driven adversary simulation: instead of finding as many vulnerabilities as possible, the red team pursues business-critical objectives such as accessing customer data or payment systems while remaining undetected, across the full kill chain including social engineering, external compromise, lateral movement and persistence. A penetration test is broader in coverage but narrower in realism.

Our engagements are aligned with CBEST, TIBER-EU and AASE and use MITRE ATT&CK tactics, techniques and procedures to simulate realistic threat actors. We finish with retrospective sessions with your SOC to turn the results into detection and response improvements.

Red teaming is designed for organisations with a mature security programme and an existing SOC or detection capability — typically banks, fintechs, payment providers and large enterprises — that want to validate how well their people, processes and technology withstand a real attack.

Red team engagements typically run for several weeks and are quoted individually after scoping; they are our most premium service and priced well above a standard penetration test. The proposal fixes the objectives, rules of engagement, duration and price.

Yes. Rules of engagement, a white team contact on your side, pre-agreed deconfliction procedures and non-destructive techniques keep the simulation controlled. Any artefacts created during the engagement are removed and documented.