Simulate a real cyber attack with red team testing
Red Team Testing
Red teaming is the ultimate test of your physical, cyber and procedural security defenses
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What is a red team exercise?
Red team exercises are designed to test every layer of your organization’s security defenses, including all cyber, physical and procedural controls. Confronting your whole-business security assumptions simulates a real-world attack from a determined adversary. It’s the ultimate test of your security maturity that provides you with valuable intelligence on how a cyber criminal could breach your organization.
Red team exercises are also sometimes called physical penetration tests, as they typically include a physical intrusion attempt. All cyber, physical and procedural attacks are conducted in a pre-approved, controlled, authorized environment to ensure no risk to your day-to-day business activities.
Benefits of red team testing
A red team assessment is the best way to truly gauge your organization’s real-world security. It does this by simulating the resources and tools available to a determined adversary, revealing security flaws that you didn’t know existed. Red team exercises feature a pre-agreed objective that our experienced penetration testers are challenged to complete.
Red team assessments are designed to help you think like a hacker. Red teaming is the most comprehensive security assessment and demonstrates to your customers that you’re serious about security.
- See if your organisation could withstand real hacking tools and techniques
- Assess your ability to detect and respond to threats
- Test your human and physical security as well as your cyber defenses
- Receive a comprehensive report detailing all uncovered security issues
- Build stronger defenses and prevent a real-life breach
Simulate a targeted physical and cyber attack
Highlight vulnerabilities in your security procedures
Many layers of attack for ultimate impact
A pre-agreed scope sets the limits of our exercise
Red team vs pen test – what do you need?
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing attempts to enumerate all security weaknesses in a set of your organization’s IT systems, in a pre-set scope and timeframe. A penetration test is purely a technical exercise whereas a red team assessment can include physical intrusion attempts. It’s for this reason that red teaming is sometimes called physical penetration testing.
Red Team
Red team assessments span all layers of your security defenses, including physical, cyber and procedural. Unlike penetration testing, the aim of a red team assessment is to compromise your security defenses by any means necessary. The objective-based nature of red team engagement is a better simulation of an attack from a determined, real-world adversary.
What to expect during a red team exercise?
Every Target Defense red team engagement is different, as we tailor our attacks to meet your specific security and organizational objectives. Through a mix of technical vulnerability exploitation, social engineering and physical breaches, we’ll test every aspect of your security. Target Defense's red team engagements have a 100% success rate of finding security flaws. Our security professionals are certified to respected international standards, including CREST and OSCP. Our physical intrusion attempts are carried out by experienced, ethical social engineering and technical crews.
How does red teaming work?
A red team test is objective-based, with a pre-defined scope that’s calibrated to your organization’s security goals. Our trained operatives will profile your business across all stages of the kill chain to create a customized plan of attack – just like a real cyber criminal.
The red team engagement starts with penetration testing and social engineering elements in order to identify weaknesses in your cyber and procedural security. This data supports a physical site access attempt, in-line with scope. Once completed, a comprehensive report will explain every step taken and details of the vulnerabilities and data we were able to find.
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