Test your entire defense – not just individual systems
A Red Team engagement goes far beyond a classic penetration test. We simulate a realistic, targeted attack on your organization – across all layers: technology, people, and processes. This reveals how well your defense truly performs under real-world conditions.
Red Teaming is a comprehensive security assessment where a specialized team (the Red Team) attempts to achieve defined objectives – just like a real attacker. Unlike a penetration test that focuses on specific systems, Red Teaming tests your organization's entire defense chain.
| Criteria | Penetration Test | Red Teaming |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Defined systems / applications | Entire organization |
| Objective | Find vulnerabilities | Achieve defined objectives (e.g., access CEO mailbox) |
| Duration | Days to weeks | Weeks to months |
| Stealth | Not required | Covert approach |
| Awareness | IT team informed | Only management aware |
Collection of publicly available information about your organization.
Initial access via phishing, exploits, or physical methods.
Spreading through the network and escalating privileges.
Achieving agreed objectives and demonstrating impact.
Detailed report with attack paths and recommendations.
Social engineering, phishing, vishing – how do your employees react to targeted attacks?
Networks, endpoints, cloud infrastructure – do your technical controls withstand a targeted attack?
Approvals, call-backs, internal workflows – can an attacker exploit or bypass your processes?
Access controls, server rooms, badge cloning – can we physically infiltrate your buildings?
Anonymized engagement example
A Swiss financial services firm. 3 weeks. Lateral movement to the ERP system — undetected.
Joint debrief with the SOC team. The client then implements eight new detection rules, corrects alerting thresholds, and hardens the endpoint configuration. Follow-up test: the attack is detected within four hours.
A Swiss financial services firm with an existing SOC wants to know how far a targeted attacker gets in its organization – and at which point the attack is detected. Objective: access the ERP system. The SOC team is not informed in advance.
Our Red Team reports are aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Each attack step is mapped to the corresponding tactics and techniques. This gives you not just a list of vulnerabilities, but a structured account of every attack path – traceable and directly comparable to the behavior of real threat actor groups.
On request, we emulate the behavior of specific threat actor groups (APTs) relevant to your industry – for example in finance, healthcare, or manufacturing. We deliberately use their documented tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and show how far exactly that attacker gets in your environment.
Red Teaming is designed for organizations that have already implemented basic security measures and run regular penetration tests – and now want to take the next step. If you want to know how far a determined attacker can really get in your organization, a Red Team engagement is the right approach.
Management-ready summary of the attack simulation with overall risk assessment and strategic recommendations.
Complete mapping of all attack techniques used to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, including an attack timeline.
Detailed documentation of each attack path with evidence, screenshots, and reproduction steps.
Prioritized remediation roadmap to close identified gaps, ordered by risk and effort.