Red Teaming
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A red team assessment is an objective-based exercise where security experts emulate a real adversary end to end: gaining initial access through phishing or an exposed service, escalating privileges, moving laterally, and pursuing an agreed objective such as reaching customer data, all while staying quiet. The output is not just a list of vulnerabilities but an honest measure of whether your defenses detect and stop a determined attacker.

A penetration test aims to find as many vulnerabilities as possible in a defined scope. A red team engagement is goal-based and stealthy, testing whether your people, processes, and technology can detect and stop a determined attacker pursuing a specific objective.

Yes. Evaluating whether your team detects and responds to the activity is a core outcome, and we can run it as a purple team assessment so your defenders work alongside us to improve.

Red team operations run longer than a standard test, typically several weeks, because stealth and realistic pacing are part of the exercise. We scope the duration around your objectives.

A red team is most valuable once you already have a detection-and-response capability to test. If you have not run standard penetration tests yet, or have no security monitoring in place, a full-scope pentest usually delivers more value first. Our guide on whether you are ready for red teaming walks through the signs, and we will give you an honest answer during scoping.

Red team engagements start at $12,500 for a scoped operation that combines external, internal, phishing, and adversary simulation into one exercise, quoted as a fixed price after we agree objectives, with a complimentary retest of remediated technical findings included. Starting prices for every service are on our pricing page.

Yes, within the rules of engagement. Evasion is part of the exercise because real adversaries do not announce themselves: custom tooling, living-off-the-land techniques, and careful pacing are used to test whether your endpoint detection, identity monitoring, and SOC actually see the activity. Every technique is logged with timestamps and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK so your defenders can replay the timeline against their alerts afterward.

Before the operation starts we agree in writing the objectives, the systems and people in scope, the techniques allowed, the hours of operation, a deconfliction process so a real incident is never mistaken for us, and an emergency stop. No destructive actions, no denial of service, and nothing that touches production data beyond proving access. A trusted contact on your side knows the operation is running even when the SOC does not.

Red team penetration testing, or red team pentesting, is the objective-based version of a penetration test: instead of listing every vulnerability in one system, the operators chain whatever works across three legs toward an agreed goal. The phishing leg wins initial access through a person, using the same campaigns as our phishing simulation service. The network leg escalates and moves laterally from that foothold. The physical leg, when it is in scope, tests badge access and tailgating in the New York metro, the same work we sell on its own as a physical penetration test. The price band starts at $12,500 for a scoped operation and rises with the number of objectives, the starting position, and the stealth required.

Both can start from access you give us. They answer different questions. The internal penetration test, from $6,000, is our assumed breach assessment: your IT team knows it is running, and we look for every path from one standard user account to Domain Admin and your sensitive systems, with a full list of findings and a free retest. A red team with an assumed-breach start, from $12,500, is covert, pursues one agreed objective, and measures whether your security team or SOC detects and stops it. Choose the internal test for breadth and the red team for detection.

A red team exercise runs in phases over several weeks: reconnaissance and planning, initial access, escalation and persistence, quiet lateral movement toward the agreed objective, and a debrief. Typically only a trusted contact on your side knows it is running, so your SOC responds as it would to a real attacker, and the debrief walks your defenders through what they saw and what they missed. Our guide to getting the most from a red team exercise covers how to turn that debrief into lasting improvement.

Adversary simulation services include a chosen starting point, either full scope where we earn our own way in or an assumed-breach foothold you grant; multi-vector initial access; stealthy escalation and lateral movement toward an agreed objective; and a defense grade alongside the attack. You receive an attack narrative, a detection and response timeline, a MITRE ATT&CK coverage map of the operation, and a strategic remediation roadmap, from $12,500 with an optional purple-team debrief.