Red Team Operations & Adversary Simulation
Full-scope adversary simulation using MITRE ATT&CK TTPs — testing your people, processes, and technology against a sophisticated, persistent threat actor operating under real-world objectives.
Full Red Team · Purple Team · Assumed Breach
Three distinct engagement models to match your security maturity, budget, and specific objective — from blind adversary simulation to collaborative detection improvement.
Full Red Team
The most comprehensive engagement. Our operators have no prior access beyond publicly available information. The Blue Team has no advance warning. We simulate a sophisticated APT from initial reconnaissance through full objective achievement — testing your entire detection and response capability.
- Full OSINT reconnaissance & target profiling
- Multi-vector initial access (phishing, vishing, physical)
- Custom C2 infrastructure & payload development
- Stealthy lateral movement & persistence establishment
- Crown Jewels access & data exfiltration simulation
- Full detection & response gap analysis
Purple Team
Red and Blue teams operate collaboratively. Adversary TTPs are executed transparently, with the Blue Team actively improving detection in near-real-time. Ideal for organizations that want to systematically mature their detection capability — not just measure it.
- MITRE ATT&CK TTP library — technique-by-technique execution
- Real-time SIEM rule development & tuning during exercise
- Detection coverage gap identification & remediation
- Atomic Red Team & custom tooling for TTP simulation
- Blue Team debrief & detection improvement roadmap
- Repeatable exercise framework for continuous maturity
Assumed Breach
Assume the perimeter is already compromised. We begin from an established internal foothold — simulating the post-initial-access phase of an advanced threat actor. Focused entirely on lateral movement, privilege escalation, and Crown Jewels access within your environment.
- Internal foothold provided by client (agreed scope)
- Credential harvesting & LSASS / SAM database attacks
- Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting & ticket attacks
- Lateral movement & Active Directory escalation
- Domain Controller compromise demonstration
- Ransomware deployment readiness assessment
Why Penetration Tests Are Not Enough
A penetration test tells you which doors are unlocked. A red team engagement tells you whether anyone would notice if someone walked through one. Real adversaries operate slowly, patiently, and evasively — blending into legitimate traffic, abusing trusted relationships, and chaining individually low-severity findings into full compromise paths no automated scan will ever discover.
Red team engagements are the right choice when an organisation has invested in a security operations capability — a SOC, EDR platform, SIEM detection rules, an IR playbook — and needs honest, evidence-based validation of whether those investments actually stop a determined threat actor. The answer, in the majority of engagements, is that they do not.
APT Simulation
Emulating real threat actor TTPs — not generic attack scripts from commodity tooling
MITRE ATT&CK Coverage
Mapping every operator action to the ATT&CK matrix for measurable detection coverage
Crown Jewels Focus
Objective-based testing against your most critical business assets and data
Full SOC Debrief
Live operator walkthrough with your SOC team for real-time detection improvement
5-Phase Red Team Engagement Methodology
From threat intelligence and OSINT profiling through initial access, lateral movement, Crown Jewels achievement, and Blue Team debrief.
Threat Intelligence & Target Profiling
Extensive OSINT before any active testing: employee profiling via LinkedIn, GitHub, and dark web sources; domain infrastructure mapping; technology stack fingerprinting; supply chain and third-party trust mapping. This mirrors exactly how advanced threat actors pre-position before first contact with a target.
Initial Access
We attempt to gain a foothold using the most realistic attack vectors available: spear-phishing with custom lure documents, vishing targeted at high-value employees, physical intrusion into office premises, and exploitation of external-facing infrastructure — within agreed scope and Rules of Engagement.
Persistence, Lateral Movement & Escalation
Once a foothold is established, we move slowly and deliberately — mimicking APT dwell behaviour. We establish persistent access, harvest credentials, escalate privileges, and map Active Directory trust relationships to identify all paths to Crown Jewels targets using BloodHound and manual analysis.
Objective Achievement & Exfiltration Simulation
We demonstrate full compromise of pre-agreed Crown Jewels objectives — Domain Controller access, executive mailbox access, financial system access, or ransomware deployment readiness — with evidence-collected touchpoints mapped to your detection and response capability for gap analysis.
Debrief, Reporting & Detection Improvement
You receive an Executive Report (attack narrative, timeline, business impact) and a Technical Report (full MITRE ATT&CK mapping, detection gap analysis, Blue Team improvement recommendations). Our operators conduct a live debrief with your SOC team — walking through every action for detection tuning.
Full-Spectrum Red Team Coverage
From OSINT and phishing through custom C2, Active Directory compromise, physical intrusion, and Crown Jewels access — every attack vector, systematically tested.
OSINT & Target Profiling
Comprehensive open-source intelligence gathering — employee profiling, infrastructure mapping, credential exposure on paste sites and dark web forums, supply chain trust, and technology stack fingerprinting before any active testing begins.
Custom C2 Infrastructure
Development of custom Command & Control infrastructure — Cobalt Strike, Havoc, Sliver — with domain fronting, HTTPS-over-CDN communication, and traffic blending techniques designed to evade proxy inspection and EDR behavioural detection.
Active Directory Attacks
Full AD attack chain — Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, Pass-the-Hash, DCSync, Golden and Silver Ticket forgery, and BloodHound-mapped escalation paths to Domain Admin via the shortest privilege escalation chain in your environment.
Physical & Social Engineering
On-site physical intrusion attempts, tailgating, badge cloning, and social engineering via targeted vishing and pretexting — testing the human layer of your security perimeter that no technology control can fully protect.
Evasion & Detection Testing
Operating against your EDR, AV, and SIEM — testing actual detection capability against living-off-the-land techniques, custom shellcode, process injection, AMSI bypass, and log-evasion methods that commodity tools never test.
Crown Jewels Access
Objective-based engagement against pre-agreed high-value targets — Domain Controllers, executive email, financial systems, customer databases, intellectual property repositories, or ransomware deployment readiness assessment.
Real Adversaries. Real Objectives. Real Improvement.
We operate like the threat actors your security programme is designed to stop — because that is the only way to honestly validate whether it actually does.
MITRE ATT&CK Mapped
Every operator action is mapped to a specific MITRE ATT&CK technique — giving your Blue Team a measurable, framework-aligned view of detection gaps and the specific coverage improvements required.
Custom Tooling & C2
We develop custom payloads and C2 infrastructure for every engagement — not commodity tools your AV already detects. Our operators work around your specific defensive tooling configuration.
Full SOC Debrief
Post-engagement, our operators walk through every action with your SOC team — reproducing attack steps for detection tuning and providing specific SIEM alert and EDR rule recommendations.
Exec + Technical Reports
Two-report format: an Executive Report with attack narrative and business impact for board and C-suite, and a Technical Report with full ATT&CK mapping and Blue Team improvement roadmap.
Operator Tooling We Deploy
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about red team operations
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