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Red team operations
Test the whole target, not just the tech.
Real attackers don’t limit themselves to your IP ranges. Our red teams blend phishing, physical intrusion, and digital exploitation to answer the only question that matters: would we actually stop them?
Adversary simulation, end to end.
A red team operation runs like a real campaign: reconnaissance, initial access, persistence, lateral movement, and objective capture — across email, phone, office, and cloud. Your blue team gets to defend against a thinking opponent instead of a scan report.
- Social engineering — spear-phishing, vishing, and pretexting campaigns calibrated to your culture, with staff care built in.
- Physical intrusion — badge, tailgating, and on-site access attempts against offices and facilities, within legal bounds.
- Blue-team development — purple-team debriefs turn every successful intrusion into a detection your defenders own.
What’s included
A campaign, not a checklist.
Design
Intelligence-led scenario
Scenarios built from threats to your sector, with defined objectives like domain dominance or data exfiltration.
Execute
Multi-vector campaign
Coordinated phishing, physical, and digital vectors over four to eight weeks, with safety controls throughout.
Improve
Detection uplift
Every successful technique becomes a detection rule and a coached replay with your defenders.
Engagement flow
Planned with lawyers, felt by everyone.
Operations begin with strict rules of engagement, emergency contacts, and get-out-of-jail documentation. Then the campaign runs its course — and the final debrief walks executives and defenders through every step, minute by minute.
Is red teaming legal and safe? +
Yes — everything runs under a signed authorization with defined boundaries, insurance-backed liability terms, and an agreed abort procedure. Staff are never individually targeted for punishment; results are reported in aggregate.
How is this different from penetration testing? +
Pentests find as many vulnerabilities as possible in scope. Red teams pursue one objective by any allowed means — measuring detection and response, not just flaws.
Should our blue team know in advance? +
We recommend starting blind to measure true detection, then switching to purple-team mode mid-operation so defenders learn the techniques live. Both modes are available.
Scope a red team operation.
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