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Objective-based scoping
We design the engagement around a business-impact goal (data exfiltration, lateral movement to a crown-jewel system, privilege escalation to admin) rather than a list of targets.
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Red Teaming & Adversary Emulation
Goal-based engagements that simulate how a real attacker would move through your environment. MITRE ATT&CK-aligned.
What we put our name behind
Detection-ready deliverables
Every technique we execute is mapped to a specific MITRE ATT&CK sub-technique and delivered as detection rules in your SIEM's query language (Splunk SPL, Sentinel KQL, Elastic EQL, or Chronicle YARA-L) — not as a PDF your detection team has to translate. Your blue team walks away with deployable content, not homework.
Overview
A penetration test asks "what can we find?". A red team engagement asks "what can an attacker do?" — and it measures whether your detection and response can stop them from doing it. The scope is an objective, not a target list: exfiltrate customer data, pivot from a developer laptop to production, or escalate to domain admin without tripping an alert.
We align to MITRE ATT&CK so every technique we use maps to a threat actor your threat intel team is already tracking. The output isn't just a list of findings — it's a measured view of how your SOC, your EDR, and your runbooks actually perform under pressure.
What's included
Every engagement is senior-led and scoped in writing before kickoff.
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Initial access simulation
Assumed-breach, phishing simulation, or external perimeter exploitation — your choice of starting posture. Each with different learning value.
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MITRE ATT&CK mapping
Every action taken is mapped to a specific ATT&CK technique so your detection engineering team can build rules against real adversary behavior, not generic IOCs.
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Detection & response measurement
We coordinate with your blue team (if you have one) to measure mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond for each phase of the kill chain.
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Purple team readout
Optional joint readout where we walk your blue team through every technique used, which ones were detected, and what detection content would catch them next time.
What you get
- Engagement charter with objective, scope, and rules of engagement
- Attack narrative document — timeline of every action taken, mapped to ATT&CK
- Detection gap analysis with specific recommendations
- Executive briefing for leadership
- Optional purple team workshop to hand off findings to your detection team
- Verification retest of every critical and high finding, completed within 60 days of report delivery (request by day 45)
Ideal for
- Organizations with a mature SOC who need to measure effectiveness, not just existence
- Security teams running an annual assumed-breach exercise
- Teams preparing for a board-level cyber readiness conversation
- Companies who have run pentests and want to level up to adversary emulation
Frequently asked
- What is the difference between a red team and a penetration test?
- A pentest is broad and finding-focused: cover the attack surface, document every vulnerability. A red team is narrow and objective-focused: achieve a business-impact goal while evading detection. You want both, but for different reasons.
- Do you do physical red teaming or social engineering?
- We scope phishing and pretexting into engagements when the objective calls for it. Physical access (badge cloning, on-site entry) is out of scope for our standard engagements — we focus on digital attack paths.
- How long is a typical red team engagement?
- Most engagements run 4-8 weeks, depending on objective complexity and your environment size. Reporting and debrief typically takes another 1-2 weeks.
- Will you damage anything?
- No. Our rules of engagement explicitly prohibit destructive actions, privilege escalation that could lock accounts, or any activity that would materially affect availability. Every technique is coordinated with your trusted control contact.
Related services
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Penetration Testing
Manual, senior-led exploitation for internet-reachable web applications and REST/GraphQL APIs. First engagement: we find a high-severity vulnerability or you don’t pay.
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AI & LLM Security
Red-teaming for LLM applications, agentic systems, and the APIs they touch. The risks most pentest firms don't test for.
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DevSecOps
Pipeline-integrated SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC scanning. Secrets management. Security as a CI step, not a quarterly review.
Ready to scope a red teaming engagement?
A 30-minute call with a senior specialist. Written scope before kickoff. No SDRs.