Find out how your defenders perform under real pressure.
Penetration tests find vulnerabilities. Red team engagements find out whether your detection, response, and recovery processes actually work when someone with intent and time is pursuing a defined goal. Our operators run multi-week campaigns aligned to current adversary tradecraft, working toward objectives such as accessing a crown-jewel system or exfiltrating sensitive data.
What you're dealing with.
- Pentest findings do not tell you whether your team would notice a breach in progress
- Detection rules have never been tested against creative tradecraft
- Incident response runbooks have never been exercised against an unknown adversary
- Leadership wants assurance that controls work end to end, not just on paper
The work in concrete terms.
- Threat-informed campaign planning using MITRE ATT&CK and threat intelligence for your sector
- Multi-stage operations: initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and objective completion
- Tradecraft tuned to evade common EDR, SIEM, and identity controls
- Goal-driven scenarios such as accessing a target database from a phishing entry point
- Optional purple team replay with your blue team after each stage
- Tight communication discipline with a small read-in group inside your organization
What you receive.
Signed engagement scope and rules of engagement
Operational timeline showing every attack stage and the time it took
Detection gap analysis mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
Defender response review: what was detected, when, and what should have been
Recommendations across detection engineering, IR runbooks, and architecture
Executive readout and technical debrief sessions
How we deliver, end to end.
- 01
Scope
Agree objectives, target assets, rules of engagement, escalation contacts, and out-of-scope areas.
- 02
Plan
Build a threat-informed attack plan using current adversary techniques relevant to your sector.
- 03
Execute
Run the campaign over four to six weeks, with controlled, reversible actions only.
- 04
Detect
Track which attack stages your team detected and escalated, and which slipped through.
- 05
Replay
Optional purple team session walks your blue team through every stage.
- 06
Report
Executive and technical reports with prioritized recommendations and detection rules.
- 01
Scope
Agree objectives, target assets, rules of engagement, escalation contacts, and out-of-scope areas.
- 02
Plan
Build a threat-informed attack plan using current adversary techniques relevant to your sector.
- 03
Execute
Run the campaign over four to six weeks, with controlled, reversible actions only.
- 04
Detect
Track which attack stages your team detected and escalated, and which slipped through.
- 05
Replay
Optional purple team session walks your blue team through every stage.
- 06
Report
Executive and technical reports with prioritized recommendations and detection rules.
When clients call us.
- Annual board-level resilience assessment
- Pre-IPO or pre-acquisition security validation
- SOC maturity test after major detection investment
- Insurance underwriter readiness exercise
- Sector-specific scenarios such as ransomware in healthcare or BEC in finance
Questions we hear most.
A pentest answers where the vulnerabilities are. A red team engagement answers how your team would perform against a real attacker pursuing a goal. The scope is broader, the timeline is longer, and the measurement is your team's response, not just our findings.
Most red team engagements run four to six weeks of active operations, plus two weeks for planning and reporting.
No. Every action is agreed in advance, reversible, and coordinated with a designated point of contact. We do not deploy real malware, encrypt data, or take destructive actions.
Usually no. The point is to test their unprepared response. We work with a small read-in group (typically CISO, IT lead, and legal) so the test stays honest while leaving a path to call it off if needed.
Yes. Purple team replays the engagement collaboratively with your blue team after each stage, prioritizing detection learning over surprise. Good for teams that have already done a black-box red team and want to mature their detection engineering.
Often paired with this engagement.
Ready to scope this engagement?
A short call is usually enough to recommend the right starting point and a realistic timeline.