What is Red Teaming?

Red Teaming is a security assessment that covers an entire organisation or department. The Red Team consists of experienced security specialists who try to gain access to your organisation. The Blue Team is your organisation’s defensive team and consists of employees responsible for securing the IT environment. The Red Team tries to gain access to your organisation without any prior knowledge and without the Blue Team noticing. The goal is not only to find vulnerabilities, but also to demonstrate whether a real attack could be successful. The assessment shows whether the security team detects the attack and how it responds.

Who is Red Teaming suitable for?

Red Teaming is suitable if you want to know how well your organisation can withstand a real, advanced attacker. It helps you find out how effective your detection and response processes are. Red Teaming is intended for organisations that have reached a certain level of security maturity. Your organisation will probably already carry out regular pentests and will have performed various security tests in recent years. In practice, we see that Red Teaming is mainly used by larger organisations with their own Blue Team, such as banks, government organisations and large companies.

How does Red Teaming work?

Once your organisation chooses Red Teaming, our experts get started. The process begins with research. Who works at your organisation? What does your organisation do? What is most important to protect? We then decide together exactly what we will test. Which areas are we allowed to test? Which methods can we use? For example, we may send a targeted phishing email. If an employee clicks on the link, our experts gain access to the network and continue their investigation from there. With Red Teaming, we can also test physical security measures. For example, a specialist may try to enter the building by pretending to be a delivery person bringing a cake for an employee.

After the assessment, you receive a report with practical advice to help your Blue Team and your organisation improve.

What is the difference between a pentest and Red Teaming?

Red Teaming is a broad assessment, while a pentest focuses on specific areas, such as web applications or systems. With Red Teaming, we simulate a realistic scenario. We carry out the assessment over a period of 6 to 12 weeks, as real attackers may also take their time to carry out an attack. Before the Red Team strikes, it first builds trust with an employee over a longer period. On the other hand, a pentest often takes around a week. Your organisation knows in advance which web application we will test and when the test will take place.

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PuraSec has experienced specialists who can carry out Red Teaming for your organisation. Red Teaming helps you understand the risks your organisation faces. We turn these risks into clear steps, helping you stay in control of your security.

Would you like to know what we can do for your organisation? Contact us.

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