Red teaming
A red team exercise is more than a long pentest: it is a controlled campaign that tests how your organisation detects, investigates, and contains a determined adversary—not just whether a single server has a missing patch.
What you get out of it
- Honest signal on SOC visibility, alerting logic, and runbook gaps
- Insight into lateral movement paths, identity abuse, and privilege escalation in your estate
- Exercises tailored to a threat model (ransomware, espionage, malicious insider collaboration)
- Controlled scope and safety rails so legal, communications, and IT stay in the loop
Engagement flavours
- Full objective-based red team (covert entry, persistence, and “crown jewel” access attempts)
- Purple-team style iterations: attack, observe detections, tune, repeat
- Hybrid: red team phases paired with executive readouts and consulting on structural fixes