Red Team as a Service

Every engagement begins with clear planning to ensure the exercise is realistic, controlled, and safe for business operations. Together with your team, we define targets in scope, prohibited actions, and out-of-scope assets, including specific users, applications, or endpoints. This helps maintain operational safety, compliance, and business continuity throughout the exercise.

A realistic red team exercise starts with understanding what an attacker can learn from public sources. We conduct open source intelligence gathering and reconnaissance to identify public-facing domains, subdomains, exposed email addresses, employee information, IP addresses, DNS records, and cloud assets. We also review public code repositories and version control platforms for leaked credentials, configuration files, tokens, or exposed internal tools. This stage mirrors how real-world attackers begin planning cyber attacks.

Human behavior remains a critical part of the attack surface. Our offensive security professionals and ethical hackers create realistic phishing and social engineering scenarios tailored to specific users, roles, or departments, using pretexts such as vendor communication, internal IT support, or business inquiries. These exercises also assess email spoofing exposure through SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, along with employee awareness and incident reporting behavior.

Internet-facing assets often become the first point of compromise. Our team tests external applications, endpoints, and infrastructure in scope for weak entry points, misconfigurations, and exploitable vulnerabilities. We also assess how attackers could abuse public-facing application functionality, including registration flows, authenticated areas, and access control weaknesses.

If initial access is achieved, the exercise expands into a deeper attack path across the environment, such as lateral movement, persistence, and network exploitation. We simulate how an attacker could escalate privileges, move laterally, maintain access, and evade detection using compromised credentials or identified weaknesses. This helps reveal whether critical systems or sensitive data can be reached after the initial foothold, identify critical security weaknesses, and evaluate the exposure of assets such as intellectual property.

Red team exercises also test how effectively your in-house team responds to suspicious activity. We observe whether alerts are triggered, whether malicious actions are logged or blocked, and whether attacker movement is detected and contained. This provides insight into your team’s visibility, investigation process, and incident handling maturity.

At the end of the engagement, we deliver in-depth reporting that documents the attack timeline, entry points used, weaknesses exploited, credentials obtained, and detection gaps observed during the exercise. Findings are translated into business risk and prioritized remediation steps. We also conduct a debriefing session with stakeholders to review lessons learned, discuss practical improvements, and mitigation strategies to reduce identified security risks.