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Red Teaming, or Red Team exercise, is a cybersecurity assessment in which an ethical hacking team simulates and sequences a complete attack against a company, going from information gathering to the full takeover of the infrastructure, exploiting any relevant technical or human vulnerability that may grant access to specific assets or information.

It is a more offensive and realistic approach than penetration testing (pentesting), which also tests how the Blue Team (the client’s defensive cybersecurity team) responds to such attacks.

The objective is to expose flaws in an organisation’s security strategy and to provide recommendations to improve it.

Gathering of publicly available information that is relevant to prepare the attack and to spot potential weak points, services, or targets.

Phishing, phoning, and other similar tactics are used to break into a company’s system and retrieve sensitive information.

This malware locks and encrypts data, leaving organisations in the position of having to pay a ransom to avoid losing their data.

Getting inside a company’s infrastructure by guessing an account’s common or weak password.

Getting physical access to internal infrastructure. It may involve exploiting human knowledge or equipment like Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) access control, surveillance cameras or alarms.

Red Team

Experienced pentesters – usually part of an exempt external service provider – that replicate what actual attackers would do. They try to break through the defensive wall of the Blue Team, while avoid being detected.

Blue Team

They are part of the company’s IT security team, and their objective is to defend the organisation from the attackers, including the Red Team’s attempts, using whatever security measures and tools they work with on a daily basis.

Purple Team

Not exactly a team, but an approach in which the Red and Blue teams work collaboratively throughout the exercise. A bit of realism is given up in favour of better communication between the two teams, allowing them to react and improve faster and continuously.

Stay ahead of cyberattackers

Get inside hackers’ minds, predict how they can damage your business and prepare to avoid it.

Identify vulnerabilities

Red Team exercises detect and assess security weaknesses in your systems to help you address them and prepare for future risks and threats.

Build cybersecurity resilience

By implementing recommended measures, your company will be much more prepared to prevent, detect and respond to potentially damaging cyber threats.

Avoid financial and reputational damages

Improving your cybersecurity posture means you’ll be able to prevent data exfiltration, as well as consequent financial and reputational damages.

Ensure compliance

Being cyber-ready and practicing regular security audits also guarantees that your company complies with industry-relevant standards and legislations.

Promote security teams’ continuous learning

Specifically for Blue Teams (usually part of the company), Red Teaming exercises can be extremely valuable and a great opportunity to learn how attackers can be detected and stopped.

	Red Teaming	Pentesting
Objective	Assess how actual attackers can harm an entire entity, retrieve critical data or cause further damages.	Detect vulnerabilities affecting a specific scope.
Target	Entire group, entity or service.	Limited to one or few infrastructures, systems or applications.
Timeframe	Few weeks – Several months.	Few days – Several weeks.
Blue Team perspective	Unaware a Red Team exercise is taking place, the Blue Team is tested and trained to detect and prevent complex attacks.	Aware a Pentest is taking place, the Blue Team may learn how to detect specific vulnerabilities.
Results	Report with the details of the attack, kill chains, vulnerabilities, evaluation of the global entity’s security posture, and recommendations for improvement.	Report with an evaluation of the scope’s technical security posture, a list of detected vulnerabilities, and technical recommendations for corrective actions.

Red Teaming

Objective: Assess how actual attackers can harm an entire entity, retrieve critical data or cause further damages.
Target: Entire group, entity or service.
Timeframe: Few weeks – Several months.
Blue Team perspective: Unaware a Red Team exercise is taking place, the Blue Team is tested and trained to detect and prevent complex attacks.
Results: Report with the details of the attack, kill chains, vulnerabilities, evaluation of the global entity’s security posture, and recommendations for improvement.

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Red Team Pentesting conducts assessments on various systems. Often, the critical security vulnerabilities are not tied to the specific technology of the system, allowing for successful testing of new system types.

Yes, Red Team may incorporate social engineering tactics.

Realistic attack simulation, optimisation of incident management processes, and validation of security investments.

Red Teaming

What is Red Teaming?

Red Team strategies and tools

Our Red Team experts are trained to use all the techniques employed by actual attackers, such as: