Red Team Exercises

The activity carried out by a Red Team is a valuable source of information for corporate or governmental intelligence departments. The most realistic way to measure your defenses against an adversary is to subject yourself to their attack.

A Red Team operates by representing a real threat, replicating its behavior, techniques, and tactics. The cyber‑exercise is carried out to its full extent, pursuing objectives such as manipulating or exfiltrating information outside the organization, theft, denial, or fraud. This involves using tools not typically employed in conventional penetration tests, such as various types of malware, social engineering, or non‑public exploits. Principles such as evading monitoring and maintaining discretion are essential during the missions, as is establishing persistence in compromised systems. In short, the team acts with virtually no imposed limitations, just as would occur in the case of a real attack.

At the same time, it can collaborate at various levels with the organization’s defense teams, or Blue Team, enabling faster and more effective learning for them.

KNOW

Objectively and measurably determine the real risk an organization faces of suffering a specific cyberattack from a defined threat.

ELIMINATE

Limitations of traditional tests such as penetration testing or vulnerability scans, which are time‑bounded and only provide a snapshot of the security posture at the moment the tests are performed.

FASTER LEARNING

Red Team activity, sustained over time and synchronized with the Blue Team, enables faster learning, increasingly effective detection, and improved response procedures.