Red Teaming

Introduction

Red Teaming goes beyond traditional penetration testing: it validates not only whether an attacker can break in, but whether your people, processes, and tools will detect and respond. Cyber-Defense’s Red Team engagements emulate sophisticated, multi-stage adversaries to test your full security lifecycle—from intrusion to exfiltration—under realistic conditions.

What Is Red Teaming?

A Red Team engagement is a long-running, goal-oriented exercise where skilled operators attempt to achieve defined objectives (data exfiltration, persistence, privilege escalation, etc.) while avoiding detection. Unlike single-vector tests, Red Teaming blends technical exploitation, social engineering, and operational tradecraft to mirror advanced persistent threats (APTs).

Our Red Team Methodology

We follow a structured, professional approach tailored to your risk profile and constraints:

1. Objectives & Rules of Engagement – Define goals, scope, safety constraints and legal approvals.
2. Intelligence & Reconnaissance – Open-source intelligence (OSINT), infrastructure mapping, and target profiling.
3. Initial Access – Phishing, credential stuffing, exposed services, or supply-chain vectors depending on rules.
4. Persistence & Privilege Escalation – Establish footholds, escalate privileges, and move laterally.
5. Command & Control (C2) & Exfiltration – Simulate realistic C2 and data exfiltration techniques while measuring detection.
6. Blue Team Interaction – Optionally executed as a purple-team exercise to tune detections in real time.
7. Reporting & Remediation – Full evidence packages, detection gaps, and prioritized mitigation plans.
8. Retest & Validation – Validate fixes and improvements after remediation.

Typical Objectives

• Test incident detection and response capabilities (SIEM, EDR, SOC).
• Validate segmentation and lateral movement controls.
• Demonstrate potential business impact via simulated data exfiltration.
• Test user awareness and operational playbooks (phishing + IR drills).

Why Choose Cyber-Defense for Red Teaming?

• Experienced operators with real Red Team & APT simulation backgrounds.
• Aligned with MITRE ATT&CK to map techniques and detection coverage.
• Safe, scoped operations that respect business continuity and legal boundaries.
• Actionable, prioritized remediation that improves SOC maturity—not just a list of findings.
• Optional purple-team mode to immediately operationalize detections.

Deliverables

Every engagement includes:

• Executive summary with business impact and risk posture.
• Detailed technical report with timelines, TTPs used (mapped to MITRE ATT&CK), logs, and proof-of-concept artifacts.
• Detection gap analysis showing where EDR/SIEM/Network controls failed or succeeded.
• Prioritized remediation plan with tactical fixes and strategic improvements.
• Tabletop or debrief session with execs, SOC, and IT teams.
• Retest option to validate remediation effectiveness.

Benefits

• Reveal blind spots in detection and response before real adversaries exploit them.
• Improve SOC playbooks, alert fidelity, and forensic readiness.
• Demonstrate measurable security maturity to boards, clients, and regulators.
• Strengthen people, process, and technology in a single, integrated exercise.