Red Team Engagements

See how your people, processes, and technology stand up against an adversary who is committed to compromising your environment through any means necessary over a prolonged period of time.

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Ready for a Red Team Engagements?

If you’re wondering “Is it possible for an attacker to hack your organization,” a red team assessment will give you the answer. While a purple team engagement is used to evaluate and bolster your blue team, a red team engagement is the final exam for your blue team. Organizations that are ready for a red team assessment have an established blue team and experience with penetration tests as well as phishing, vishing, wireless, and physical testing. Your defenses are ready for the ultimate test.

Our Approach

This engagement is executed against your entire attack surface. Our team (the red team) conducts reconnaissance, builds attack plans, and executes multi-vector attacks to achieve the established objective. This is a covert test, unknown to your team.

Reconnaissance

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Our team gathers open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify a list of targets, including domains, networks, and websites. They review job postings, social media, blogs, public documents, and observe your physical locations and wireless networks.

Rules of engagement
Recon work
List of targets

Planning & Execution

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The red team plans its attacks based on the established assessment objectives and the intel gathered during reconnaissance. Attack plans are provided to client leadership (the white team) before execution. Once approved, attacks are executed.

Selected targets
Attack plans
Attack execution

Infiltration & Capture

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Once our team gains a foothold within your environment, they begin maneuvering toward the objectives. They leverage your tools and silently target and exploit systems as they advance toward the objective, making every effort to go undetected by your team. Once they achieve the objective, the assessment ends.

Environment compromise
System exploitation
Objective achieved

Reporting

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Our team delivers a detailed report to the white team that includes all attack plans, activities, and observations. It also provides a statement on the overall security posture of your organization and suggested remediation efforts.

Engagement observations
Statement on security posture
Remediation recommendations

Our Approach

This engagement is executed against your entire attack surface. Our team (the red team) conducts reconnaissance, builds attack plans, and executes multi-vector attacks to achieve the established objective. This is a covert test, unknown to your team.

Phase 1 - Reconnaissance

Our team gathers open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify a list of targets, including domains, networks, and websites. They review job postings, social media, blogs, public documents, and observe your physical locations and wireless networks.

Rules of engagement
Recon work
List of targets

Phase 2 - Planning & Execution

The red team plans its attacks based on the established assessment objectives and the intel gathered during reconnaissance. Attack plans are provided to client leadership (the white team) before execution. Once approved, attacks are executed.

Selected targets
Attack plans
Attack execution

Phase 3 - Infiltration & Capture

Once our team gains a foothold within your environment, they begin maneuvering toward the objectives. They leverage your tools and silently target and exploit systems as they advance toward the objective, making every effort to go undetected by your team. Once they achieve the objective, the assessment ends.

Environment compromise
System exploitation
Objective achieved

Phase 4 - Reporting

Our team delivers a detailed report to the white team that includes all attack plans, activities, and observations. It also provides a statement on the overall security posture of your organization and suggested remediation efforts.

Engagement observations
Statement on security posture
Remediation recommendations

Different from the Rest

At Thawd, we take a different approach to managing cyber risk.

Operational Experience

Our project teams have been in your shoes, enabling us to provide realistic recommendations and further guidance after the engagement is complete.

Pre-Sales Through Execution

The same team that helps you scope and tailor the project to your needs will help deliver the engagement and provide The same team that helps you scope and tailor the project to your needs will help deliver the engagement and provide on-going support.

Partnership

After an engagement is complete, we don’t hand you a report and walk away; our job is not finished until we see you succeed.

Put a TRUSTED Team of Cybersecurity experts on your side

Leverage our Red and Blue Team experts' technical skills and strategic security knowledge to exceed standard services, ensuring task completion and exceptional value for your enterprise.

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