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Penetration Testing
A penetration test tells you where your vulnerabilities are. A red team engagement tells you whether your people, your SOC, and your incident response actually work when a real attacker is inside your network.
About This Service
A realistic, goal-oriented adversarial simulation designed to test your organisation’s detection, response, and resilience against a persistent, sophisticated threat actor — going far beyond a standard penetration test.
Technical controls and compliance passes look good on paper. A red team exercise tests whether those controls actually hold when someone is actively trying to circumvent them — using the same patience, creativity, and technique as a real threat actor targeting your organisation specifically.
MITRE ATT&CK, TIBER-EU, CBEST, PTES
Typical Timeline: 3–8 weeks
Report: Executive summary + full technical findings
Retest: Complimentary, included in every engagement
NDA: Signed before any technical discussion
Deliverables
Strategic overview of the engagement outcome for board and senior leadership
Chronological account of every action taken from initial access to objective achievement
All vulnerabilities and weaknesses exploited, with proof-of-concept and CVSS scores
All techniques used mapped to the ATT&CK framework for blue team reference
Timeline showing which actions were detected vs missed by your SOC and security tools
Prioritised improvements to people, process, and technology based on engagement findings
In-person or video walkthrough with your security leadership and board
Scope
Initial access via phishing, spear-phishing, and social engineering
External network exploitation and perimeter breach
Physical security testing — tailgating, badge cloning (where in scope)
Credential harvesting and password attacks
Lateral movement across internal networks
Active Directory attack paths — escalation to domain admin
Data exfiltration simulation
Evasion of endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools
Testing of blue team detection and incident response capabilities
Command and control (C2) infrastructure simulation
Process
Every engagement follows a defined, transparent process — no surprises, no hidden scope changes, and no invoice for work you did not agree to.
Agree on crown jewels, flags, success criteria, and rules of engagement.
In-depth intelligence gathering on people, technology, and processes.
Attempt to breach the organisation through the most realistic attack path.
Establish foothold, escalate privileges, and move toward objectives.
Simulate data exfiltration or demonstrate access to defined critical systems.
Full attack narrative, detection timeline, and strategic remediation recommendations.
Why Us
Automated tools find known signatures. Our certified consultants find the chained attack paths, logic flaws, and context-specific vulnerabilities that no scanner will surface. Every finding we report is manually verified — zero false positives.
Every finding includes a proof-of-concept, a CVSS risk score, the affected system or endpoint, and step-by-step remediation guidance written for the team that has to fix it. Your developers and your board both get a report they can use.
We sign a formal NDA before any technical discussion begins. Your vulnerabilities, your architecture, and your engagement findings are treated with the same confidentiality as attorney-client communications. We have never disclosed client information.
Every engagement includes a complimentary retest once your team has addressed the findings. We verify that the vulnerabilities are genuinely closed — not surface-patched — and issue a formal retest certificate you can share with clients and auditors.
Every action taken by our red team is mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, giving your blue team a precise technical reference for improving detection rules. And every engagement ends with a board-ready narrative report that communicates real business risk without requiring your executives to read a CVE list.
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Comprehensive multi-vector assessment of your enterprise attack surface.
Deep-dive into internal network segmentation and lateral movement paths.
Identify and prioritise weaknesses across your full infrastructure.
FAQ
A penetration test aims to find as many vulnerabilities as possible within a defined scope and timeframe. A red team engagement is objective-driven — simulating a real, targeted attacker trying to reach specific goals while evading detection. It tests your entire security programme, not just technical controls.
Typically only a small group of senior stakeholders are aware (the “White Team”). The blue team and SOC operate without knowledge of the engagement to simulate a real attack scenario.
Red team engagements typically run for 3–8 weeks depending on scope, complexity, and objectives defined.
Yes. You receive a full attack narrative report, a technical findings report, a detection gap analysis, and strategic recommendations for improving your detection and response capabilities.
Get a free scoping consultation — no commitment required. We’ll scope the right red team engagement for your environment and send a fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.
