Red team operations
Full-scope, unannounced adversary simulation across network, application, physical, and social vectors — the definitive test of your program's effectiveness.
SERVICES · TIER 3 · SIMULATION
Expert — Simulation
Adversary simulation for mature enterprises facing sophisticated threats and nation-state TTPs. We run the full playbook across technology, people, process, and response — and prove whether your program actually detects and stops it.
WHY IT MATTERS
Compliance is
the floor.
Most security programs are tested against checklists. A red team tests them against attackers, and proves whether the controls, the people, and the response actually work.
Adversaries
are the ceiling.
EXPERT-TIER SERVICES
Five ways to stress test the whole program
Purple team engagements
Our red team works alongside your blue team in real time, building detection and response with immediate feedback loops and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned scenarios.
AI & LLM pen testing
Adversary-driven testing of AI, LLM, and agent systems — model behavior, trust boundaries, and agent and tool abuse that traditional testing misses.
Explore AI & LLM SecurityAIUC-1 validation
Independent controls audit and certification for AI agent systems, backed by a consortium of 75+ Fortune 500 CISOs.
Threat intel-led testing
Replicates specific threat actor TTPs from current intelligence. DORA and TIBER-EU aligned, with a CREST-recognized methodology.
NEW UNDER FEDRAMP
Red team is now a required control for Moderate and High systems
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 control CA-8(2) makes red team exercises an organizational control, performed at least annually.
The exercise is not required to be performed by a 3PAO — internal teams and third-party providers are both allowed. Final FedRAMP guidance is still in draft pending public comment; the draft is the only guidance that currently exists.
CA-8(2)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 makes red team exercises a required organizational control for Moderate and High systems.
Annual Benchmarking
A cadence is required — the control must be performed at least once a year, not just once at authorization.
Real results
Adversary-realistic testing — real TTPs, real impact, real evidence, not a checklist exercise.
INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES
Six mandatory attack vectors. one coordinated test.
Mature organizations need advanced techniques that demonstrate how real world attackers would use vulnerabilities to compromise an enterprise.
External to corporate
Social engineering exercise targeting CSP administrator susceptibility to real-world phishing.
External to CSP target system
External and internal network-based attack against IPs and FQDNs across the CSO boundary.
Tenant to CSP management
External attack as an authorized credentialed user against the CSP management plane and infrastructure.
Tenant to tenant
Authorized credentialed user in one tenant attempting to compromise a secondary tenant.
Mobile app to CSP target
Attack against all mobile applications developed by the CSP that access the CSO environment.
Client app / agent to CSP
Attack against applications or agents managed by the CSP that are deployed on the client's premises.
HOW WE WORK
A disciplined seven-phase methodology
MITRE ATT&CK-aligned, adversary-driven, and built around your objectives — not a generic checklist. 10 to 12 weeks total, with 4 to 6 weeks of active execution.
// 01
Objective setting
Business context, scope, key assets, and success criteria. External or assumed-breach start.
// 02
Recon & threat modeling
Gather IPs, domains, and employee data. Threat-model TTPs against MITRE ATT&CK.
// 03
Initial access
Exploit systems or people via social engineering, physical, or external attack-surface vulnerabilities.
// 04
Establish persistence
Maintain footholds via backdoors, new accounts, and C2 frameworks for sustained operations.
// 05
Lateral movement
Escalate privileges and move laterally with defense evasion, credential theft, and chained exploits.
// 06
Actions on objectives
Achieve the simulation goals: data exfiltration, system access, or exercising specific controls.
// 07
Reporting & debrief
Executive summary, detailed findings, control successes and failures, and improvement recommendations.
EXERCISE SCENARIOS
Two starting points. different stories.
Every red team begins with one of two scenario archetypes, chosen to match what you most need to validate.
Scenario 01 — External attack surface
Begin with OSINT and social engineering to identify and exploit the external security posture and gain initial network access. Highlights weaknesses in perimeter defenses and the breadth of discoverable attack surface.
Scenario 02 — Ceded internal access
Begin with pre-gained access to the internal network — compromised credentials or an insider position. Focuses on internal recon, privilege escalation, and lateral movement, and evaluates detection and response.
Test like an adversary
See what an attacker would achieve in your environment and put your detection and response to the test. Let's scope a red team or FedRAMP engagement that fits where you are today.
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