Red Teaming &
Adversary Simulation
Assume breach methodology. We emulate sophisticated threat actors to expose gaps in your detection, response, and resilience capabilities.
Beyond Vulnerability
Scanning
Red teaming is a goal-based adversarial exercise that assesses your organisation's ability to withstand a real-world attack. Unlike penetration testing, we simulate the full kill-chain — from initial access to lateral movement, persistence, and objective completion.
Our red team operators hold OSCP and CRTE, and work the kill chain by hand rather than running an automated framework end to end. Every engagement is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and tailored to your threat landscape — not a generic script.
Engage Red Team →Attack Phases We Execute
Employee enumeration, infrastructure mapping, credential exposure on public sources
Watering hole, credential stuffing, VPN exploitation, supply chain
Pass-the-hash, Kerberoasting, LSASS dumping, C2 implant deployment
Crown jewel access, data exfiltration simulation, ransomware deployment scenario
How Red Teaming Differs
From a Penetration Test
Both are offensive security exercises, but they answer different questions. A penetration test asks "how many vulnerabilities can we find in this application or network?" and is scoped narrowly to a defined target over a short window. A red team engagement asks "can a determined adversary reach our crown jewels without being detected and stopped?" — and it is measured not by a vulnerability count but by whether your people, processes, and technology detect and respond in time.
Penetration Testing
- • Broad coverage of a defined scope
- • Goal: find and fix as many flaws as possible
- • Announced — the blue team knows
- • Typically 1–3 weeks
- • Output: a prioritised vulnerability report
Red Team Engagement
- • Objective-based — reach a specific target asset
- • Goal: test detection & response, not just prevention
- • Covert — only a small "white cell" is aware
- • Typically 4–8 weeks across the full kill chain
- • Output: an attack narrative, timeline & detection-gap analysis
Choose the Depth
That Fits Your Maturity
Not every organisation is ready for a full covert operation on day one. We scope the engagement to your security maturity and your regulatory drivers — whether that is RBI and SEBI expectations in India, TIBER-EU in Europe, or board-level assurance.
Full-Scope Red Team
External-to-internal simulation of a targeted adversary. We start with zero access and work the entire kill chain toward an agreed objective — domain admin, a payments system, or specific client data.
Assumed Breach
We begin from a foothold — a compromised laptop or a low-privilege account — to test how far an attacker moves after the perimeter fails. Faster and ideal for measuring internal detection.
Ransomware Readiness
A controlled simulation of modern ransomware tradecraft — credential theft, lateral movement, backup targeting and staged exfiltration — stopping short of any encryption, to prove whether you would detect it in time.
Social Engineering & Phishing
Targeted spear-phishing, pretext calls (vishing) and, where in scope, physical intrusion — measuring the human layer that technology alone cannot defend.
Purple Team
Our operators work side by side with your SOC, replaying ATT&CK techniques one by one so your detection engineers can tune alerts and close gaps in real time.
TIBER / Threat-Led Testing
Intelligence-led engagements aligned to TIBER-EU and CBEST for regulated financial institutions, driven by bespoke threat intelligence on the actors most likely to target you.
What You Receive
Every engagement ends with evidence a board can act on and a blue team can learn from — not just a tool dump. Our reporting is written by the operators who ran the engagement.
A step-by-step account of how we reached the objective, with timestamps you can line up against your own logs.
Which techniques your controls caught, which they missed, and where the mean-time-to-detect can be shortened.
Fixes ranked by risk and effort, mapped to owners — plus a complimentary re-test of the objective path once remediated.
Red Teaming — Common Questions
Is a red team engagement safe to run against production?
Yes. Every action is bounded by a rules-of-engagement document agreed in advance with your white cell. Destructive actions such as encryption or data destruction are simulated, never executed, and we maintain a direct line to your point of contact throughout so an exercise can be paused instantly.
How is red teaming different from vulnerability assessment or VAPT?
VAPT measures how many weaknesses exist in a defined scope. Red teaming measures whether your detection and response can stop a real adversary reaching a specific objective. Many clients run VAPT continuously and commission a red team once a year to validate the whole security programme end to end.
How long does an engagement take, and what does it need from us?
A full-scope engagement typically runs four to eight weeks. From your side it needs only a small, trusted white cell to agree scope and objectives, plus emergency contacts. The wider organisation is deliberately not told, so the exercise reflects a genuine surprise attack.
Do your engagements help with RBI, SEBI or DPDPA expectations?
They do. Threat-led red teaming supports the resilience-testing expectations set by Indian regulators for banks, NBFCs and market infrastructure, and the evidence maps cleanly onto our GRC & regulatory reporting so the same exercise satisfies both security and compliance stakeholders.
Who performs the testing?
Certified offensive-security operators (OSCP, CRTE and equivalent) based in Mumbai, working the kill chain by hand and mapping every technique to MITRE ATT&CK. You are never handed raw automated-scanner output.
Ready to Test Your Defences?
Red team engagements typically run 4–8 weeks. We brief your CISO team before, during, and after the exercise.
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