Continuous Security Validation

Advanced Threat Simulation & Red Team Operations

Knowing you have security controls is not the same as knowing they work against a determined adversary. We simulate sophisticated attacks against your organisation — exactly as real threat actors would — to answer the question that matters: can you detect and stop them?

CBEST
Qualified
MITRE
ATT&CK Native
APT
TTP Simulation
Purple
Team Debrief
Why Red Team Testing

Compliance Assessments Tell You What Controls You Have. Red Teaming Tells You Whether They Work.

Traditional security assessments — penetration tests, vulnerability scans, compliance audits — evaluate individual controls or specific systems in isolation. They don't answer the question that actually matters to boards and regulators: if a sophisticated threat actor targeted our most sensitive assets today, could they succeed — and would we detect them?

Advanced threat simulation answers that question with empirical evidence. By simulating the full attack lifecycle — from initial reconnaissance to objective achievement — using the actual TTPs of threat actors relevant to your organisation, we provide the realistic validation of your entire security posture that no checklist-based assessment can deliver.

60% of organisations that commission red team engagements discover the red team achieved primary objectives undetected (Verizon DBIR 2025)
Regulation increasingly requires red team testing: CBEST, TIBER-EU, CERT-In IR requirements, DORA for financial entities
Most security incidents involve techniques that a rigorous red team exercise would have identified months or years earlier

Full Scope Red Team

Objective-based operations simulating the full TTPs of relevant threat actors

CBEST / TIBER-EU

Intelligence-led threat testing for regulated financial sector supervisory requirements

APT Simulation

Nation-state and criminal group TTP simulation using current threat intelligence

Purple Team Debrief

Collaborative debrief building detection capability from red team findings

Our Methodology

5-Phase Threat Simulation Methodology

A rigorous, intelligence-led approach to advanced threat simulation — from adversary profiling to purple team debrief and hardening plan delivery.

01

Threat Intelligence & Adversary Profiling

We develop a specific adversary profile for your organisation — identifying the nation-state groups, criminal threat actors, and hacktivists most likely to target your sector and organisation, based on current threat intelligence and your industry's attack history.

02

Attack Scenario Planning & Scoping

We design realistic attack scenarios based on your threat profile — defining the objectives, initial access hypotheses, attack paths, and success criteria that will guide the red team operation, with appropriate safeguards and rules of engagement.

03

Covert Red Team Operation

Our red team executes the planned attack scenarios — using real adversary techniques, custom tooling, and social engineering to achieve the defined objectives while remaining undetected by your security team, mirroring the approach of genuine threat actors.

04

Detection & Response Evaluation

We evaluate your security operations team's detection and response performance against the actual red team activity — assessing whether alerts were generated, triaged correctly, and responded to within timeframes relevant to limiting breach impact.

05

Debrief, Purple Team, & Hardening Plan

Following the covert phase, we conduct a full debrief — sharing all attack telemetry, walkthroughs of each attack path, and a purple team session that helps your blue team understand what they missed. A prioritised hardening plan closes the identified gaps.

Threat Simulation Services

Comprehensive Advanced Threat Simulation Services

From full-scope red team operations to CBEST regulated testing and assumed breach simulation — every format of advanced adversary emulation.

Full-Scope Red Team Operations

Comprehensive, covert red team engagements targeting your organisation's most sensitive objectives — simulating the behaviour of sophisticated threat actors to validate your security posture against realistic advanced persistent threat scenarios.

Assumed Breach Simulation

Starting from a position of assumed compromise — simulating an attacker who has already achieved initial access — to evaluate your lateral movement defences, privilege escalation controls, and detection of post-exploitation activities.

Social Engineering & Phishing Simulation

Targeted social engineering assessments — spear phishing campaigns, pretexting, vishing, and physical access simulations — evaluating human security controls and the resilience of your workforce to the initial access techniques most commonly used by threat actors.

CBEST & TIBER-EU Red Team Testing

Regulated financial sector threat-led penetration testing aligned to CBEST (UK) and TIBER-EU frameworks — providing the rigorous, intelligence-led red team assessment required by central bank supervisors across major financial markets.

Purple Team Exercises

Structured collaborative exercises where our red team executes adversary techniques in coordination with your blue team — building detection and response capability through real-time feedback loops that traditional red team engagements do not provide.

Nation-State & APT Simulation

Simulating the tactics, techniques, and procedures of specific nation-state threat actors and Advanced Persistent Threat groups — providing boards with realistic evidence of resilience against the highest-capability adversaries relevant to your organisation.

Why Adayptus

Red Team Operators Who Think and Act Like the Adversaries Targeting Your Organisation.

Our red team practitioners combine deep offensive security expertise with current threat intelligence — delivering adversary emulation that reflects the real-world capabilities of the threats your organisation faces.

Threat Intelligence Driven

Every red team engagement is built on current threat intelligence — simulating the specific adversaries and methodologies relevant to your organisation and sector.

CBEST / TIBER Qualified

Our team includes practitioners qualified to deliver regulated threat-led penetration testing under CBEST and TIBER-EU frameworks for supervised financial entities.

Custom Tooling

We develop custom tooling and tradecraft for each engagement — avoiding detection by your security controls by not relying on off-the-shelf tools that signature-based defences already catch.

Full Attribution

Every attack technique used is documented with full MITRE ATT&CK attribution — enabling your team to understand exactly what happened, when, and what should have fired to detect it.

Frameworks & Methodologies Our Testing Follows

MITRE ATT&CK
CBEST Framework
TIBER-EU
PTES
OWASP Testing Guide
NIST SP 800-115
CERT-In
Custom APT TTPs
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about advanced threat simulation

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Find Out How You Perform Against a Sophisticated Adversary

The only way to know if your security posture would withstand a sophisticated attack is to simulate one. Let our red team find out before a real threat actor does — and help you build the detection and response capability needed to detect and stop them.

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