RED TEAMING OPERATIONS

Fully assess your organisation’s threat detection and response capabilities with a simulated cyber-attack.

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What is red teaming?

Of all the available cyber security assessments, a simulated cyber-attack is as close as you can get to understanding how prepared your organisation is to defend against a skilled and persistent hacker.

The main differences between red teaming and penetration testing are depth and scope. Pen testing is designed to identify and exploit as many vulnerabilities as possible over a short period of time, while red teaming is a deeper assessment conducted over a period of weeks and designed to test an organisation’s detection and response capabilities and achieve set objectives, such as data exfiltration.

A Red Team Operation from FuzzSecurity is designed to far exceed the remit of traditional security testing by rigorously challenging the effectiveness of technology, personnel and processes to detect and respond to a highly targeted attack conducted over an extended period of time.

Evaluate your response to attack

Learn how prepared your organisation is to respond to a targeted attack designed to test the effectiveness of people and technology.

Identify and classify security risks

Learn whether systems, data and other critical assets are at risk and how easily they could be targeted by adversaries.

Uncover hidden vulnerabilities

By mirroring the latest adversarial tactics, red teaming can help identify hidden vulnerabilities that attackers might seek to exploit.

Address identified exposures

Receive important post-operation support to address any vulnerabilities identified and mitigate the risk of suffering real-life attacks

Enhance blue team effectiveness

By simulating a range of scenarios, red team testing helps your security team to identify and address gaps in threat coverage and visibility.

Prioritise future investments

Better understand your organisation’s security weaknesses and ensure that future investments deliver the greatest benefit.

Objectives

Gaining access to a segmented environment holding sensitive data

Taking control of an IoT device or a specialist piece of equipment

Compromising the account credentials of a company director

Obtaining physical access to a server room

Key features of our Red Teaming service

What you can expect from a Red Team Operation conducted by FuzzSecurity:

Offensive security experts

Our red team experts use their knowledge of how genuine attackers breach defences to comprehensively challenge your organisation’s virtual and physical cyber security controls and incident response procedures.

Intelligence-led testing

To ensure that engagements reflect the approach of real-life criminal attackers, Red Team Operations use evasion, deception and stealth techniques similar to those used by sophisticated threat actors.

Multi-blended attack methods

To achieve an agreed objective, red team testing adopts a ‘no holds barred’ approach. A wide range of techniques are used, often including social engineering, Command and Control (C2) activity and physical intrusion.

In-depth reporting

A detailed post-engagement report provides your key stakeholders with a complete overview of the exercise undertaken and actionable insights to support the remediation of any risks identified.

Actionable outcomes to secure your business

Throughout an engagement, our CREST certified ethical hackers provide regular feedback to ensure that your key stakeholders stay informed. Here’s what you can expect to receive post-assessment:

Executive summary

A high-level overview of the red team operation for executive and management teams.

Technical details

Detailed technical feedback to enable technical teams to understand and replicate findings.

Expert risk analysis

A comprehensive analysis of all security risks identified, their severity and possible impact.

Actionable intelligence

Tactical and strategic recommendations, including clear advice to help address risks.

Our Red Teaming methodology

FuzzSecurity’s Red Team Operations experts adopt a systematic approach to comprehensively test your organisation’s threat detection and response capabilities.

1 – Reconnaissance

Quality intelligence is critical to the success of any red team test. Our ethical hackers utilise a variety of OSINT tools, techniques and resources to collect information that could be used to successfully compromise the target. This includes details about networks, employees and in use security systems.

2 – Staging

Once any vulnerabilities have been identified and a plan of attack formulated, the next stage of any engagement is staging. Staging involves setting up and concealing the infrastructure and resources needed to launch attacks. This can include setting up servers to perform Command & Control (C2) and social engineering activity.

3 – Attack delivery

The attack delivery phase of a Red Team Operation involves compromising and obtaining a foothold on the target network. In the course of pursuing their objective, our ethical hackers may attempt to exploit discovered vulnerabilities, use bruteforce to crack weak employee passwords, and create fake email communications to launch phishing attacks and drop malicious payloads.

4 – Internal compromise

Once a foothold is obtained on the target network, the next phase of the engagement is focussed on achieving the objective(s) of the Red Team Operation. Activities at this stage can include lateral movement across the network, privilege escalation and data extraction.

5 – Reporting and analysis

Following completion of the red team assessment, a comprehensive final report is prepared to help technical and non-technical personnel understand the success of the exercise, including an overview of vulnerabilities discovered, attack vectors used and recommendations about how to remediate and mitigate risks.