Red Team Testing
Discover How Your Defences Perform Under Pressure
Red Team Testing evaluates your entire security posture to include people, processes and technology, by simulating real-world cyber-attack methodologies based on open-source available information.
This holistic, intelligence-led testing approach differs from conventional penetration testing, which typically only assesses the technological controls of systems that host sensitive data.
Red Team Testing effectively measures organisational exposure, not just its technology.
 | Delivering a real-world assessment of your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to actual threats, vulnerabilities and attack scenarios in real time |
| Validating the effectiveness of your existing controls and identify previously unrecognised vulnerabilities in people, process and technology |
| Helping prevent or quickly detect and respond to unauthorised access attempts |
| Verifying alignment between security measures and your organisation’s risk appetite |
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CISO
Utilities
We were highly impressed with Risk Crew’s swift response and clear, consistent communication throughout the Red Team Testing. Their tailored testing tactics were innovative and eye-opening.
CIO
Manufacturing Industry
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Finance Industry
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A Bespoke ServiceEngagements are tailored to your risk profile and maturity level. Custom simulated attacks are crafted to meet your specific security goals. Need Purple Team Testing? That’s available too. | Extensive ReportReceive a comprehensive report with findings, remediation steps, and supporting evidence, including OSINT data, simulated threat actors, attack paths, methods used, timelines, and visual or recorded proof of any breaches. |
Stakeholder WorkshopA half-day session with your key stakeholders to walk through major findings, high-priority risks, and remediation steps. Our experts explain how vulnerabilities were identified and exploited to give full context beyond the report. | On-call Security AdviceGet 30 days of post-engagement support to address questions around remediation and ensure effective risk mitigation. |
Transparent PricingFixed-cost services with no hidden fees. Ongoing penetration testing also available via a managed service. | Customer PromiseRisk Crew provides Red Team Testing with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. |
FAQs
In an information or cyber security context, a Red Team is a group of ethical hackers that design and execute a series of coordinated technical and social engineering attacks on an organisation’s people, processes, and technology to simulate how an intruder could obtain unauthorised access to its systems or information assets.
Technically, a Red Team is an independent group that challenges an organisation to improve its effectiveness by assuming an adversarial role or point of view – seeing the organisation through an adversary’s eyes.
In information security terms, Red Teams are external entities brought in to test the effectiveness of an information security risk management programme. Blue Team refers to the internal resources charged with executing the information security risk management program and defending the business from a cyber-attack. The purpose of a Red Team is to identify ways to improve the Blue Team.
Yes, Risk Crew offers bespoke Purple Team Exercises designed to assess and enhance your Blue Team’s capabilities in real-time. Let’s work together to create custom simulated attacks that sharpen your defence and raise your security game.
A security penetration test uses the methodology of identifying and attempting to exploit security weaknesses associated with an organisation’s technology systems to get unauthorised access or access to a specific target. Red Team Testing is the methodology of identifying and attempting to exploit weaknesses in an organisation’s people, processes, and technology systems to get unauthorised access to a specific target. Penetration testing is included in Red Team testing.
Typical Red Team exercises would include technical penetration testing, phishing, telephone pretexting staff for passwords, and attempting to bypass office physical access controls in order to upload an unauthorised application (i.e. spyware). The specific attack methodology would be driven by the security awareness culture of the organisation.
A Red Team testing methodology should be a flexible framework bespoke to the target organisation’s culture and objectives and at minimum be comprised of the following activities:
- Establishing the testing scope (people, processes, technology)
- Establishing the rules of engagement
- Establishing the testing target(s) and/or objective(s)
- Establishing the testing timelines
- Conducting target reconnaissance and intelligence gathering
- Designing the attacks (people, processes & technology)
- Executing the attacks
- Evidence tagging
- Report of findings & remedial recommendations
- Provide metrics for future testing
Threat Intelligence-based Ethical Red Teaming (TIBER-EU) framework is supported by the European Central Bank. It provides guidance on how entities, authorities and Red Team service providers can work together – to improve testing. Testing mirrors real-life tactics and attacks to expose security vulnerabilities and strengths.
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