Managed red teaming — goal-driven adversary emulation
Objective-oriented engagements aligned to specific threat actors and crown-jewel outcomes. Multi-vector attack chains, evasion-aware tradecraft, and a purple-team debrief that upgrades both prevention and detection.
Where teams get stuck
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 detect it before they did?”
How we engage
We start from the business outcome — domain admin, payment data, source code, customer PII — and reverse-engineer the most realistic attacker path. We blend platform-validated paths with manual evasion, pause to validate detection at each control boundary, and finish with a joint purple-team review.
Four-step engagement model
Same rigour every engagement, calibrated to your environment, threat model and regulatory exposure.
Threat-actor alignment
Pick the threat profile that matches your sector (FIN, APT, ransomware affiliate). Map TTPs to ATT&CK.
Initial access campaign
Phishing, exposed services, supply chain, identity abuse — multi-vector, scope-bounded.
Objective-driven traversal
Lateral movement, identity abuse, Tier-0 path validation toward the agreed goal.
Purple debrief & uplift
Joint walkthrough with the blue team. Detection gaps mapped, controls tuned, retest scheduled.
Deliverables
Every engagement ships these outputs — reproducible, evidence-backed and ready for executives, engineers and auditors.
Threat-actor scoped engagement
TTPs mapped to a real adversary profile relevant to your sector and crown jewels.
Validated objective path
End-to-end exploit chain with evidence at every control boundary.
Detection gap matrix
Per-stage view of which TTPs were blocked, alerted, missed — by control and team.
Purple-team uplift plan
Detection engineering tasks, control tuning, retest schedule with measurable SLAs.
What this engagement covers
Concrete coverage. Clear boundaries. Optional add-on tracks where customers want to extend.
- Threat-actor profile alignment (APT / FIN / ransomware affiliate / hacktivist)
- Multi-vector initial access: phishing, exposed services, supply chain, identity abuse
- Objective-driven traversal toward declared goal (DA, payment data, source code, PII)
- Production-safe execution under signed rules-of-engagement
- Detection scoring per stage (blocked / alerted / missed)
- Joint purple-team debrief with blue team
- Detection-engineering uplift backlog with acceptance criteria
- Retest schedule to verify uplift
- Threat-led testing under TIBER-EU / CBEST / iCAST / DORA TLPT
- Continuous red-team retainer (quarterly objective rotations)
- Insider-threat scenarios with explicit HR sign-off
- Physical + RF combined-vector engagements
- Cleared-personnel delivery (defence / government)
- ✕Findings-list-style coverage (covered by Managed Pentesting)
- ✕General awareness training (covered by Executive Cyber Awareness)
- ✕Destructive actions (e.g. real ransomware encryption) — modelled, never executed
How we deliver
- Tier-1 financial services
- Critical national infrastructure
- Regulated entities (NIS2 essential)
- Mature enterprises with internal red teams seeking external benchmark
What lands on your desk
Sections customers actually see in the engagement deliverable.
- 01Executive operation report
Threat-actor narrative, declared objective, validated path, detection score — board-readable.
- 02Detection coverage matrix
Per-TTP view: blocked / alerted / missed across SIEM, EDR, identity, network, cloud controls.
- 03Validated kill-chain
Reproducible end-to-end chain with evidence at every control boundary.
- 04Purple-team uplift plan
Detection-engineering tasks with example queries, acceptance criteria and retest schedule.
- 05Regulator pack
Where required: TIBER-EU / CBEST / iCAST / DORA TLPT format outputs.
Techniques covered
Frameworks & regulations
Frequently asked
How is this different from a pentest?
Do you involve the blue team?
How long do engagements run?
What about TIBER / CBEST / iCAST?
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