Red Team as a Service

Simulate the entire lifecycle of a real-world cyber-attack. Rootshell Security’s Red Team as a Service fully assesses your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to sophisticated attack scenarios.

Advanced attack resilience: Securely placing your organisation in a stronger position to prepare, detect, deter and recover from a real-world attack, should you be targeted.

Holistic view of deployed security: In the window between manual assessments, our testing platform will continuously test your networks and alert you of any possible security vulnerabilities

Review effectiveness of incident response mechanisms: Testing will expose and assess internal response mechanisms and ‘actions upon’ in the case of any detection of the attack.

Full range of cutting-edge hacker techniques: Rootshell Security will work with you, professionally and ethically, to determine your organisation’s resilience to an attack.

What is a red team assessment in cybersecurity?

A red team assessment is the ultimate way to test your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to cyber-attacks. Using the same methods as real-world threat actors, a red team assessment launches a safe but realistic attack simulation to evaluate the resilience of your organisation at each stage of the attack lifecycle.

Our in-depth, intelligence-driven red team service puts your security techniques, processes, and personnel to the test. You will gain full visibility of your security strategy’s strengths and weaknesses, amplifying your situational awareness and empowering you to improve your defences. We closely tailor our red team assessments to your organisation and offer an ongoing subscription to support you against ever-evolving cyber threats.

Red team services are different from penetration testing services, which aim to identify as many exploitable vulnerabilities as possible.

What is the purpose of a red team assessment?

Red team services assess how well your organisation would perform at each stage of a cyber attack, from reconnaissance to exploitation. You will gain extensive insight into the status of your attack surface and the effectiveness of your security techniques, processes, and personnel.

By conducting a red team assessment you will test the following:

– Resilience of your attack surface

– Effectiveness of your threat detection techniques

– Efficiency of your response processes

– Awareness of your personnel

How are Red team security assessments carried out?

The objective of red team security testing reflects the aim of a real-world threat actor. This could include privilege escalation, data exfiltration, or obtaining the credentials of senior personnel. Our experienced consultants can advise what goal would be most suitable for your organisation.

Once we have agreed on a goal for your red team assessment, we carry it out in four steps:

Phase 1 – Reconnaissance

We employ a range of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) techniques to gather as much information on your organisation as possible. This could include open source intelligence (OSINT), financial intelligence (FININT), technical intelligence (TECHINT), and human intelligence (HUMINT). We use this information to identify the targets and methods of our attack

Phase 2 – Weaponisation and Delivery

In this phase, we leverage our intelligence to launch the attack on your organisation. Depending on the scope and objectives of your red team assessment, we can execute methods such as email phishing, SMiShing (SMS phishing), physical ingress, or Command and Control activities to exploit vulnerabilities and gain access to your network

Phase 3 – Exploitation, Installation, Command and Control

Once we have established a foothold, we aim to achieve the agreed objective of your red team assessment. This reveals whether a hacker would be able to attain their end goal. At this stage, we can also simulate different types of threat actors, including a disgruntled employee or an attacker that has gained physical access to your site

Phase 4 – Continuous Reporting

We provide you with clear reports at each phase of your red team security assessment. This gives you full visibility of any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that may exist within your systems or personnel, so you can take action and strengthen your defences

What is the difference between a penetration test and a red team assessment?

Both penetration tests and red team assessments aim to improve an organisation’s security defences by emulating the techniques of a real-world threat actor. But the format and methods of the assessments differ.

A penetration test…

– Is a short-term assessment

– Aims to identify and exploit vulnerabilities

– Utilises one attack method

A red team service…

– Is a long-term assessment

– Aims to test how well an organisation would detect and respond to an attack

– Utilises a broad range of attack methods

The benefits of Red team security testing

Advanced attack resilience

Gain unparalleled insight into how best to prepare, deter, detect, and recover from cyber attacks.

Evaluate your defences

Conduct a broad and deep analysis of your security strategy so you can reduce risk across all areas of your organisation.

Multifaceted approach

Test a range of attack methods. We use a variety of techniques to conduct your simulated red team attack, including intelligence-led reconnaissance and social engineering.

Continuous improvement

Equip your organisation with the insights needed to make continuous improvements. Our ongoing service is far more effective than standalone projects or siloed testing.

Why choose Rootshell’s Red Team services?

Our vast experience in security testing, threat intelligence, and consultancy for some of the UK’s largest organisations makes us the perfect partner for your red team services.

– Subject matter experts: Our in-depth and extensive knowledge of how threat actors operate means we can deliver the best quality red team service possible.

– Wide-ranging experience: Our expertise in the full suite of security assessments, including email phishing, physical ingress, and Command and Control activities, means we can test an exhaustive number of attack methods.

– Intelligence-driven: As specialists in cyber threat intelligence, we elevate our red team assessment with cutting-edge intelligence-led testing. You will gain a critical awareness of how a threat actor would plan an attack in the first place.

– Expert red team security consulting: Following your red team assessment, our consultants provide you with clear, detailed, and insightful reports and expert advice so you know exactly how to remediate and reduce risk.