Red Team Assessment
A realistic adversary simulation using custom C2 infrastructure that validates access paths, measures detection outcomes, and delivers a practical improvement plan — with evidence your team and board can act on.
What you get on day one
Concise scope, test plan, and outcomes your team can execute.
Adversary-simulated
Engagement style
Not vulnerability scanning.
Detection readiness
Primary outcome
Find gaps before attackers do.
2–6 weeks
Typical duration
Depends on scope and objectives.
Custom C2
Tooling
Proprietary framework + OPSEC.
Why red team
Measure what an attacker can do — and what you detect
A red team assessment goes beyond vulnerability discovery. It validates whether your security controls, detection stack, and response processes actually work against a capable adversary operating with stealth.
Controls aren't tested under pressure
Security policies and EDR tooling look strong on paper. But real adversaries chain multiple weaknesses that no single control addresses — and the only way to know if your stack holds is to simulate the attack.
Detection blind spots are invisible
You can't audit what you can't see. Red team engagements reveal where telemetry is missing, where alerts fail to fire, and where response playbooks break down under realistic conditions.
Risk lives in chained paths
Real compromise rarely comes from a single critical vulnerability. It comes from multiple small weaknesses — a weak password, a misconfigured trust, an over-privileged service account — chained into domain-level access.
Assumed defenses need validation
Segmentation, MFA, EDR, and monitoring are only effective if they actually stop an attacker who has already gained initial access. We validate the controls that matter most — after the perimeter.
Our tooling
Custom C2 framework and adversary infrastructure
We don't rely on off-the-shelf tools that modern EDR already signatures. Our operators use a proprietary command-and-control framework purpose-built for realistic adversary simulation.
Custom C2 framework
We operate our own command-and-control infrastructure built specifically for red team engagements. Purpose-built implants, encrypted channels, and modular payloads that avoid signature-based detection — giving a realistic measure of your EDR and network monitoring effectiveness.
OPSEC-first operations
Every action is designed to mimic real adversary tradecraft. We use timestomping, process hollowing, memory-only execution, and traffic blending to test whether your detection stack catches behavioral indicators — not just known signatures.
Custom payload development
Payloads are developed per engagement to match your environment's defenses. No off-the-shelf Cobalt Strike beacons. This ensures detection outcomes reflect your actual resilience, not your ability to block known tools.
What we validate
Objectives that map to real compromise
We align on goals with your leadership team, then validate the full attack chain with evidence and measurable detection outcomes at every phase.
Initial access
Validate realistic entry paths into the environment — exposed services, credential abuse, phishing (where approved), supply chain vectors, and external service exploitation. We use the path of least resistance, just like real adversaries.
Privilege escalation
Test whether internal controls prevent credential harvesting, token theft, service account abuse, and local/domain privilege escalation. We chain misconfigurations that individually seem low-risk.
Lateral movement
Assess segmentation, trust boundaries, and how easily access spreads across systems, networks, and cloud environments. Map the real blast radius from each foothold.
Objective execution
Demonstrate defined goals aligned to your business risk: sensitive data access, domain control, critical system compromise, or business-impact actions that prove the threat is real.
Detection & response
Measure what was detected, how quickly alerts fired, whether the SOC responded, and what telemetry existed versus what was missing. This is the most actionable part of the engagement.
Evasion & persistence
Test whether defenses catch advanced techniques: process injection, living-off-the-land binaries, custom implants, and persistence mechanisms that survive reboots and credential rotations.
Ready when you are
Plan a red team assessment
We'll define objectives, execute a controlled adversary simulation with custom C2 infrastructure, and deliver measurable detection outcomes with actionable remediation.
How we work
A controlled engagement with clear guardrails
Structured execution from rules of engagement through debrief — with defensible evidence and practical outcomes at every stage.
Rules of engagement
Align on objectives, safety constraints, approved techniques, change windows, communication channels, and stop conditions before any activity begins.
Threat modeling
Select realistic tactics, techniques, and procedures based on your environment, industry threat landscape, and the adversary profiles most relevant to your business.
Infrastructure setup
Deploy custom C2 infrastructure, establish encrypted channels, prepare environment-specific payloads, and validate OPSEC measures before active operations.
Execution & evidence
Operate with real adversary tradecraft while capturing defensible evidence at every step. Each action is logged with timestamps, screenshots, and command output.
Detection measurement
Record which actions were detected, which alerts fired, response time metrics, telemetry coverage gaps, and missed indicators across the entire kill chain.
Debrief & remediation
Deliver a clear narrative, root cause analysis, detection improvement roadmap, and a prioritized remediation plan that engineering and security teams can execute.
Deliverables
Executive-ready narrative and engineering-ready detail
Clear evidence, measurable detection outcomes, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and a practical remediation roadmap.
Executive narrative
A clear story of what happened, why it worked, and what it means for the business — written for leadership, board, and audit audiences.
- Attack timeline with business context
- Risk impact mapped to objectives
- Strategic improvement recommendations
Technical kill chain
Step-by-step documentation of the full attack path with evidence — from initial access through lateral movement to objective completion.
- Commands, screenshots, and traces
- TTP mapping to MITRE ATT&CK
- Each action timestamped and logged
Detection scorecard
A structured assessment of what your detection stack caught, what it missed, and where telemetry gaps exist across the engagement timeline.
- Alert-by-alert analysis
- Telemetry coverage heat map
- Response time measurements
Remediation roadmap
Prioritized fixes mapped to root causes across identity, endpoint, network, and monitoring — with quick wins separated from architectural improvements.
- Identity and access hardening
- Detection rule improvements
- Segmentation and trust fixes
Engagement options
Choose the engagement style
Objective-based red teaming for full adversary simulation, or collaborative purple teaming to improve detections alongside your SOC.
Objective-based red team
A defined adversary simulation with clear success criteria — reach critical systems, exfiltrate target data, or achieve domain-level control. Every action is measured against your detection and response capabilities.
- Defined objectives aligned to business risk
- Custom C2 and environment-specific payloads
- Full detection scorecard with response metrics
Purple team (collaborative)
Work alongside your defenders in real time to validate detections, improve telemetry, and tune response playbooks. Same adversary tradecraft, but with your SOC observing and iterating live.
- Collaborative testing with your security team
- Rapid detection improvement per technique
- Repeatable playbooks for future validation
FAQ
What teams ask before we start
Is phishing included?+
Only when explicitly approved and scoped. Many engagements focus on technical access paths — exposed services, credential abuse, and trust boundary exploitation. Phishing campaigns are an optional add-on with separate approval and safeguards.
Will this disrupt production?+
We operate with guardrails, pre-approved change windows, and agreed stop conditions. Actions that risk service disruption require explicit authorization. The engagement is designed to test your defenses, not break your environment.
Why use a custom C2 framework?+
Off-the-shelf tools like Cobalt Strike are heavily signatured by modern EDR. Using custom infrastructure gives a realistic measure of your detection capabilities against a capable adversary — not just your ability to block known tools.
Do you map findings to MITRE ATT&CK?+
Yes. Every technique used during the engagement is mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, giving your team a structured view of which tactics were attempted, which succeeded, and which were detected.
Can you retest after remediation?+
Yes. We offer retest and purple team follow-up engagements to validate that fixes and detection improvements are working. This is especially valuable for verifying new detection rules against the same TTPs.
What's the difference between a red team and a pentest?+
A pentest focuses on finding as many vulnerabilities as possible in a defined scope. A red team simulates a real adversary with stealth, persistence, and specific objectives — the goal is to measure your detection and response, not just find bugs.