Red Teaming
An objective-led adversary simulation rather than a coverage exercise. We agree a goal — reach this data, reach this system — and pursue it across every avenue a real attacker would, including phishing, exposed infrastructure and physical access where you authorise it. The measure is not a list of vulnerabilities but whether your team noticed, how fast, and what they did.
Timeline
Four to eight weeks, depending on scope and how quiet you want us to be. Reconnaissance and access are the slow parts by design — moving fast is what gets a real attacker caught.
You get
- Executive narrative — what we did, what worked, what it would have cost you
- Full technical timeline of every action taken, with timestamps
- Detection gap analysis: what your tooling saw, missed, and saw too late
If any of these is your week, this is the service.
You have a security team and want to know if it works
You have invested in monitoring and process, and every test so far has told you about vulnerabilities rather than about your response.
What we do
A simulation run against your live detection, with a timeline afterwards showing exactly what was and was not seen.
Your pentests have stopped finding anything interesting
Scoped application tests come back clean, which tells you those applications are healthy and nothing about the path around them.
What we do
Full-scope testing that treats people, process and infrastructure as one surface — because an attacker does.
A board or regulator wants evidence of resilience
The question is no longer whether you have controls, but whether they hold up against someone actively trying.
What we do
A documented simulation with an executive narrative, a detection timeline and specific gaps ranked by exploitability.
Every step, and what leaves our hands at the end of it.
- 01
Objectives & rules
We agree the goal, the rules of engagement, the escalation path and who inside your organisation is aware. Legal authorisation is signed before anything starts.
→ Rules of engagement
- 02
Reconnaissance
Passive and active intelligence on the organisation: exposed infrastructure, staff, suppliers and anything already leaked.
→ Threat profile
- 03
Initial access
The chosen path in — social engineering, an exposed service, a supplier route — attempted the way the real threat actor would.
- 04
Escalate & move
Privilege escalation and lateral movement toward the objective, with every action logged for the replay afterwards.
- 05
Objective & evidence
Reach the goal and prove it, without touching or exfiltrating anything real. The proof is a screenshot, never your data.
→ Proof of objective
- 06
Purple-team replay
We walk your defenders through the whole timeline step by step, matching each of our actions to what their tooling did or did not show.
→ Detection timeline + gap analysis
Deliverables.
- Executive narrative — what we did, what worked, what it would have cost you
- Full technical timeline of every action taken, with timestamps
- Detection gap analysis: what your tooling saw, missed, and saw too late
- Ranked recommendations across detection, process and configuration
- A live purple-team replay session with your defenders
- Proof of objective, captured without touching production data
Before we can quote.
- 01The objective — the specific data or system that would hurt to lose
- 02Rules of engagement, and which techniques are off the table
- 03Who inside the organisation is aware, and the escalation contact
- 04Whether physical and social engineering are authorised
- 05Written legal authorisation from someone empowered to give it
Do not worry about having all of it. Send what you have and we will work out the rest on the scoping call.
Red Teaming, answered.
Will our team know it is a test?
Only the people you choose. A small number must know — the escalation contact, and whoever can stop the exercise — but the value comes from the defenders responding as they would to a real incident.
Do you actually phish our staff?
Only if you authorise it, and never in a way that punishes an individual. The reporting is aggregate, the outcome is a process finding, and no member of staff is named in the report.
What if you reach the objective in the first week?
We stop, tell you immediately, and the rest of the engagement becomes fixing that path and testing whether the next one is any harder. Reaching it early is a finding, not a win.
Are we ready for this?
If you have never had a pentest, probably not — a red team will find the same basic issues at several times the cost. Start with VAPT or a pentest, close what it finds, then come back.
Scope a Red Teaming.
Red Teaming is already selected below. Tell us what you are trying to protect and what is driving the timing — if a different service fits better, we will say so rather than sell you this one.