Red Team Services

Red Team vs. Penetration Test

These terms are often used interchangeably, but they describe fundamentally different engagements:

• Penetration Test — Broad coverage of a defined scope, finding as many vulnerabilities as possible. The output is a vulnerability list.
• Red Team Engagement — Narrow, objective-driven. We simulate a specific threat actor pursuing a specific goal (e.g., "access the finance database" or "achieve domain admin"). The goal is testing your people, processes, and technology under realistic adversarial pressure.

Red team engagements are typically the right choice for organizations that have already done penetration testing and want to test their detection and response maturity.

What a Red Team Engagement Includes

Our red team operations are full-scope by default, using the same techniques as real threat actors:

• Initial Access — Phishing, credential stuffing, exploitation of external vulnerabilities, or physical access depending on scope
• Persistence & Evasion — Establishing footholds that survive reboots and evade your EDR and SIEM
• Lateral Movement — Moving through your network toward the objective using credential theft, pass-the-hash, Kerberoasting, and other real-world techniques
• Privilege Escalation — Elevating to domain admin, root, or other high-privilege accounts
• Objective Achievement — Demonstrating impact: data exfiltration, ransomware deployment simulation, OT network access, etc.

Our Credentials & Experience

Red teaming requires a level of skill and tradecraft that goes beyond standard penetration testing. Our team holds:

• OSEP (Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester) — the gold standard for advanced evasion and red team tradecraft
• CRTO (Certified Red Team Operator) — Cobalt Strike and command-and-control operations
• OSCP, CRTO, PIPA, Crest CPSA

We have executed red team engagements against major cybersecurity vendors, EDR companies, government organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. We know what real attackers look like because we've had to think like them at the highest levels.

Deliverables

• Attack narrative — a timeline of every action taken, technique used, and detection opportunity your team had
• Executive summary covering business risk and overall security posture
• Detailed technical findings with evidence
• Detection gap analysis — what your SOC saw, what it missed, and why
• Remediation roadmap prioritized by impact
• Full debrief with your security team (optional purple team session available)