Why choose Target Defense for red team services
Red Team Testing
Red teaming is the ultimate test of your physical, cyber and procedural security defenses
Competitive Pricing
Businesses of all sizes can benefit from a penetration test thanks to our competitive prices
Certified Experts
Our penetration testers are certified by globally recognized bodies such as CREST and OSCP
Free VA Scans
Protect your business with 12 months of free vulnerability scans with selected pen tests
What is a red team pen test?
Red team pen tests 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 posture that provides you with valuable intelligence on how a cyber criminal could breach your organization.
Red team pen tests 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 services
A red team vulnerability 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 cybersecurity attack
Highlight security vulnerabilities in your procedures
Many layers of attack for ultimate impact
A pre-agreed scope sets the limits of our exercise
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Get my fast quoteRed team vs pen test – What’s the difference?
Penetration testing focuses on identifying security gaps within specific IT systems, whereas red team assessments aim to breach your security defenses using tactics and tools similar to those of persistent attackers. This method more accurately simulates a cybercriminal's attack on your networks and security controls. For a thorough evaluation of your organization’s security posture, red teaming can be combined with black teaming.
At Target Defense, our skilled adversarial techniques examine every aspect of your organization’s defenses, offering a comprehensive view of your security vulnerabilities. Red teaming is the most exhaustive security assessment available, making it an excellent way to enhance your systems and demonstrate to clients and stakeholders your commitment to security.
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.
What our customers say
Target Defense’s expertise and technical understanding were immediately apparent. This gave us confidence that we were going to get a good service and a good outcome. We were right on both counts.
Matt Boddy, CTO
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Pen test red team (FAQs)
While a red team uses tactics techniques and procedures (TTP) to simulate a real-world threat, a blue team is positioned within the network to recognise unusual behaviour and defend against an attempted attack. Target Defense’s collaborative purple team assessments provide proof of concept attacks that show how an attacker could gain access to a specific system or set of systems, involving a blue team at various stages to recognise and monitor the attack as it proliferates through the network. A purple team assessment is the best way to assess the effectiveness of your blue team.
Absolutely. Target Defense welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with organisations who have their own blue teams established, and coordinating the exercise is a great way to test the effectiveness of your current security controls and for understanding attack paths that may make your systems vulnerable to an external breach. These Purple Team engagements pit our experienced adversaries against your cyber defenders, with the goal of uncovering all threat detection and response weaknesses.
Red teaming is ideal for businesses who have an established security systems in place and already carry out regular penetration testing on their networks. However, organisations of any size and stage in their development can benefit from Red Team exercises. Our experienced security consultants will be able to advise you on exactly what will work for your business, and how to get the most value from your engagement.
