What is red teaming?
Of all the available cyber security assessments, a simulated cyber-attack is as close as you can get to understanding how prepared your organisation is to defend against a skilled and persistent hacker.
The main differences between red teaming and penetration testing are depth and scope. Pen testing is designed to identify and exploit as many vulnerabilities as possible over a short period of time, while red teaming is a deeper assessment conducted over a period of weeks and designed to test an organisation’s detection and response capabilities and achieve set objectives, such as data exfiltration.
A Red Team Operation from Cyber Security is designed to far exceed the remit of traditional security testing by rigorously challenging the effectiveness of technology, personnel and processes to detect and respond to a highly targeted attack conducted over an extended period of time.
Benefits
Evaluate your response to attack
Learn how prepared your organisation is to respond to a targeted attack designed to test the effectiveness of people and technology.
Identify and classify security risks
Learn whether systems, data and other critical assets are at risk and how easily they could be targeted by adversaries.
Uncover hidden vulnerabilities
By mirroring the latest adversarial tactics, red teaming can help identify hidden vulnerabilities that attackers might seek to exploit.
Address identified exposures
Receive important post-operation support to address any vulnerabilities identified and mitigate the risk of suffering real-life attacks
Enhance blue team effectiveness
By simulating a range of scenarios, red team testing helps your security team to identify and address gaps in threat coverage and visibility.
Prioritise future investments
Better understand your organisation's security weaknesses and ensure that future investments deliver the greatest benefit.
Objectives
Example goals of a Red Team Operation
- Gaining access to a segmented environment holding sensitive data
- Taking control of an IoT device or a specialist piece of equipment
- Compromising the account credentials of a company director
- Obtaining physical access to a server room
Features
Key features of our Red Teaming service
What you can expect from a Red Team Operation conducted by Cyber Security Zone:
Offensive Security experts
Our red team experts use their knowledge of how genuine attackers breach defences to comprehensively challenge your organisation's virtual and physical cyber security controls and incident response procedures.
Intelligence Led-Testing
To ensure that engagements reflect the approach of real-life criminal attackers, Red Team Operations use evasion, deception and stealth techniques similar to those used by sophisticated threat actors.
Multi-Blended Attack Methods
To achieve an agreed objective, red team testing adopts a ‘no holds barred’ approach. A wide range of techniques are used, often including social engineering, Command and Control (C2) activity and physical intrusion.
In-depth Reporting
A detailed post-engagement report provides your key stakeholders with a complete overview of the exercise undertaken and actionable insights to support the remediation of any risks identified.
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Actionable outcomes to secure your business
Executive summary
A high-level overview of the red team operation for executive and management teams.
Technical details
Detailed technical feedback to enable technical teams to understand and replicate findings.
Expert risk analysis
A comprehensive analysis of all security risks identified, their severity and possible impact.
Actionable intelligence
Tactical and strategic recommendations, including clear advice to help address risks.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
A penetration test is a focused form of cyber security assessment designed to identify and exploit as many vulnerabilities as possible over a short period of time, often just a few days. Pen tests are often performed to assess specific areas such as networks and web applications.
A Red Team Operation is an extended form of engagement conducted over a period of weeks and designed to achieve a set objective such as data exfiltration, and in the process test an organisation’s detection and response capabilities. Unlike many forms of Penetration Testing, Red Team Operations are conducted to a black-box methodology in order to ensure that engagements accurately reflect the approach of genuine attackers.
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