Red Team
Services
Relentless attack builds the most resilient defence.
Assess the resilience of your organisation against the most realistic simulation of a sophisticated adversarial attack, all while in a risk-controlled and safe scenario.
What is Red Teaming
and why it matters?
How do you prepare for something that has never happened before?
Short answer is you can't. However, a longer, hopeful answer would be that you train against known threats in a risk-controlled way, the closest you can get to the worst-case scenario. Then learn from it and iterate.
That is essentially a Red Team assessment, a sophisticated attack conducted by a team of ethical hackers simulating the modus operandi of cybercriminals, using similar tools, techniques, and procedures.
Hence, the "as realistic as possible" part becomes essential for this to render value, meaning ensuring minimum restrictions for the Red Team and keeping secrecy about the exercise within the organisation.
The White Team – the team within the organisation that is managing the assessment – will be as crucial towards other key success factors like preparation of the test plan, constant communication with the Red Team and flexible management of the exercise.
Ideal outcomes of Red Teaming
Safe Delivery
While in Penetration Testing the "crown jewels" are often left out of scope, here they are usually the main objective. This means guaranteeing minimum disruption and no loss of availability of critical business assets and functions becomes paramount.
Blue Team training
A truly valuable opportunity for the defensive team to see some real action beyond the research. This learning becomes the focal point through collaboration in the Purple Team assessment.
Resilience assessment
Evaluation of a wide number of controls based on the exercise results, oriented to identify critical issues and areas of improvement.
Comprehensive report
Detailed, yet accessible delivery designed to help both technical teams and management roles understand, align, and achieve their business goals.
Course of action
Actionable and effective recommendations on how to improve resilience, extending beyond technical issues across other areas such as people and processes.
Who can benefit from
Red Teaming?
Red Teaming is particularly valuable for organisations that have already invested in security controls and are looking to test their effectiveness in a realistic attack scenario.
Rather than simply identifying vulnerabilities, Red Team exercises focus on simulating the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries to challenge the organisation's entire security infrastructure.
This approach allows organisations to assess not just their technical defences, but also the adoption of their security processes and their ability to detect, contain, and respond to sophisticated threats. As such, Red Teaming exercises can provide significant value to both small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organisations alike.
For larger organisations
Red Teaming offers the unique advantage of rigorously testing complex, multi-layered security infrastructures with a broader attack surface. The insights gained from these simulations are invaluable, enabling larger organisations to assess the effectiveness of their security operations centres (SOCs), incident response teams, and automated defences in a realistic context.
For smaller or less mature organisations
A Red Team assessment could also be recommended to highlight critical gaps and prioritise the most impactful security improvements, serving as a valuable roadmap for building stronger defences over time.
Additionally, a usual reason why organisations require Red Team services would be compliance with frameworks like CBEST, TIBER, DORA or iCast - to name a few – which have requirements for some entities to perform engagements of this kind, normally every three years.
The SECFORCE way
We adhere to the established MITRE ATT&CK framework which maps tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by real threat actors.
In addition, SECFORCE has vast experience with the *BEST/TIBER-EU frameworks for delivering regulated Red Teaming services for financial entities and other industries. In fact, since 2020 our team has delivered some of the first multi-jurisdictional, multi-framework Red Team and Purple Team engagements in the world.
But with the goal being the most realistic simulation possible of what cybercriminals are discovering and crafting just now, frameworks on their own are not enough.
It is our deep understanding of how cybercriminals think and operate, our constant strives to keep up with the latest threats, and our focus on reliability and efficiency that ultimately enable us to offer state-of-the-art Red Teaming.
Red Teaming Services
Red Team Lite
Scaled-down version of full Red Team, starting from an "assumed-breach" position.
Red Team Standard
Comprehensive, tailored simulation of real-world attacks, targeting an organisation's defences.
Regulated Red Team
Threat intelligence-driven assessments mandated by industry regulations like TIBER, *BEST or STAR, simulating advanced attacks on critical systems to evaluate resilience against targeted threats.
