Red Teaming Services
Adversary simulation and red team assessments to test your detection, response, and security controls against realistic attacks.
Our red team engagements simulate real-world attack scenarios to evaluate your security controls, detection capabilities, and response procedures under realistic conditions. Unlike traditional penetration testing, red teaming focuses on stealth, evasion, and comprehensive testing of your organization's ability to detect and respond to sophisticated adversaries.
What is red teaming?
Red teaming is a goal-based, authorised adversary simulation: rather than scanning for every vulnerability, our operators pick a realistic objective and use any suitable route, phishing, external exploitation, physical access, lateral movement, to reach it while staying under the radar. It is the truest test of whether your people, processes, and blue team actually detect and respond to a determined attacker, and it ends with a joint debrief so your defenders learn exactly where they were seen and where they were blind.
Who Needs Red Team Operations?
Red teaming is ideal for mature organizations with established security programs seeking to validate their defenses against advanced persistent threats. This includes Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, critical infrastructure operators, and organizations handling sensitive data who need to test their blue team's detection and response capabilities in realistic scenarios.
Test Detection
Evaluate your security team's ability to detect and respond to sophisticated attacks.
Assess Response
Measure incident response effectiveness and identify gaps in procedures.
Validate Controls
Test the effectiveness of security controls in preventing real-world attacks.
Identify Gaps
Uncover weaknesses in people, processes, and technology before attackers do.
Red Team Methodology
Planning & Reconnaissance
Define objectives and gather intelligence about your organization using OSINT and other techniques.
Initial Access
Attempt to gain initial foothold using realistic attack vectors including phishing, physical access, or technical exploitation.
Privilege Escalation
Elevate privileges and move laterally through the environment to reach defined objectives.
Persistence & Evasion
Maintain access while evading detection systems to test blue team capabilities.
Objective Completion
Achieve defined goals such as data exfiltration or access to critical systems.
Reporting & Debriefing
Comprehensive report with findings, TTPs used, and recommendations for improvement.
What You'll Receive
Red Teaming FAQ
The questions security leaders ask us most often before commissioning a red team, answered straight.
What is red teaming?
Red teaming is a goal-based adversary simulation in which our team tries to reach a predefined objective (for example access to a critical system or exfiltration of data), just like a real attacker. It tests not only technology but also your people, your processes, and above all your blue team's ability to detect and respond to the attack. Stealth and realism are central.
What is the difference between red teaming and a penetration test?
A penetration test is broad and finds as many vulnerabilities as possible within a defined scope. Red teaming is goal-based: instead of scanning everything, the team picks a realistic objective and uses any suitable route, phishing, external exploitation, physical access, to reach it while evading detection. A penetration test measures your vulnerabilities; red teaming measures your detection and response under real pressure.
How much does a red team engagement cost?
A red team engagement is scoped per engagement, there is no fixed price list. Cost depends on the objectives, the size of the scope, the level of stealth required, and the duration. A scoping call typically takes 30 minutes and produces a fixed-scope written proposal within five working days.
How long does a red team engagement take?
Typically several weeks to several months, depending on the objectives and the degree of stealth. Attacks are deliberately spread out so we can realistically measure whether and when your blue team detects the activity.
What are the rules of engagement?
The rules of engagement define the boundaries up front: the objectives, which techniques are permitted, which systems are out of scope, escalation paths, and the safety protocols. Everything is documented and agreed in writing before the engagement starts.
Is red teaming relevant for TIBER-NL and DORA?
Yes. TIBER-NL is the Dutch framework for threat-led red teaming, particularly for the financial sector. DORA requires threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) for in-scope financial entities. Our engagements can be aligned to these frameworks, including threat intelligence and structured reporting.
What scenarios do you test?
Initial access via phishing, external exploitation, physical intrusion, assumed-breach scenarios, supply-chain pivots, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. We tailor the scenarios to your real threat model and the actor groups targeting your sector.
What do you deliver?
A comprehensive technical report with all attack paths and TTPs used, a timeline marking where detection was possible, an executive summary with business risk, and a joint debrief with your red and blue team (purple teaming) to structurally improve detection and response.
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