Validated chain
FIN-7-style retail engagement
Phishing→workstation→AD enumeration→ADCS abuse→DA→POS network→card data
Business impact
Cardholder data reach proven; PCI segmentation gap identified
Strike · Red Team / Adversarial
Goal-driven adversary emulation
Operate against your environment with the tradecraft of a named threat actor — toward a stated objective, with detection scoring and a purple-team debrief.
- Goal-driven, not novelty-driven
- Purple-team uplift built in
- TIBER · CBEST · iCAST capable
- Detection-engineering output
LiveRed Team · Capability
ValidatedThe problem
Most red teams optimise for novelty over outcome
Engagements end with an impressive narrative but no clear answer to: "Could this attacker reach the crown jewels, and would we catch them before they did?"
Without that answer, red teaming becomes theatre.
The KeenSafe approach
Outcome-driven, threat-actor-aligned, purple by default
KeenSafe red teams start from the business outcome — domain admin, payment data, source code, customer PII — and reverse-engineer the most realistic attacker path.
We pause at every control boundary to validate detection. Engagement ends with a joint purple-team review and a measurable detection-engineering uplift plan.
Capabilities
What ships in this engagement
Threat-Actor Profile
TTPs sourced from real adversary reporting (APT, FIN, ransomware affiliate) relevant to your sector.
Initial Access Multi-Vector
Phishing, exposed services, supply chain, identity abuse — scope-bounded.
Objective-Driven Traversal
Goals stated upfront. Path proof end-to-end.
Detection Scoring
Per-stage view of which TTPs were blocked, alerted or missed.
Purple Debrief
Joint walkthrough with blue team. Detection gaps converted to engineering tasks.
TIBER / CBEST / iCAST
Framework-aligned engagements for regulated industries.
Attack path
How attackers actually move
A goal-driven engagement is an end-to-end narrative: a threat actor with a stated objective, an environment, and a series of choices. Every choice exposes a control assumption.
Validated chain
Ransomware-affiliate emulation
Initial access via VPN credential reuse→workstation→cred dump→DC→mass file enumeration→simulated ransomware staging
Business impact
Ransomware blast radius modelled without encryption
Outcomes
Measurable, evidence-backed
Goal-proved
Engagement
Engagement closes when the stated objective is reached or budget exhausted.
Per-TTP
Detection score
Blocked / alerted / missed across SIEM, EDR, identity controls.
Detection backlog
Engineered output
Specific detection-engineering tasks with acceptance criteria.
Retest
Scheduled
Same path replayed after detection uplift — closure provable.
For the board
For the executive: detection truth
Most board reports describe what controls "should" do. A red team engagement reports what they actually do.
The output is a single number every board cares about: how many TTPs in this realistic chain did we catch?
Technical validation
Red team methodology
Threat-actor profile selected first; scope and rules-of-engagement formalised; multi-vector access; objective-driven traversal; detection scored at every boundary; closed-blind or purple mode.
- 01Threat-actor and objective alignment with stakeholders
- 02Multi-vector initial access campaign
- 03Objective-driven traversal with detection-boundary pauses
- 04Joint purple debrief with blue team
- 05Detection-engineering backlog + retest schedule
Get Started
Run a goal-driven engagement against your environment
Define the objective. We define the chain. Together we measure detection.