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What is Red Teaming?

Red teaming is an advanced, goal-driven form of penetration testing that simulates real-world attacks across an entire organisation. Unlike traditional pen tests focused on specific systems, red teams mimic real threat actors to uncover vulnerabilities, test defences, and assess how well the security team (blue team) detects and responds.

These exercises are more complex and realistic, offering valuable insights into security gaps and helping organisations strengthen their overall resilience—before a real attack happens.

How Does Red Teaming Work?

1. Planning and Reconnaissance
This stage involves gathering intelligence on the organisation’s infrastructure, employees, and security posture to identify potential vulnerabilities. Reconnaissance is key to simulating realistic attacks, helping pinpoint weak entry points and shape a targeted approach. It often includes reviewing past attacks on similar organisations and factoring in unique risks during threat modelling.

2. Initial Access
Using insights from reconnaissance, the red team simulates real-world attack methods—such as exploiting exposed systems, weak credentials, or phishing—to gain entry. The aim is to safely replicate how a threat actor might breach defences using external vectors.

3. Lateral Movement & Attack Simulation
After gaining access, the red team moves through systems to exploit weaknesses—digitally and physically. This may involve bypassing controls, phishing staff, or installing backdoors to maintain access, simulating how a real attacker could escalate and persist inside the network.

4. Exfiltration
Here, the red team mimics stealing sensitive data like trade secrets or financial records while avoiding detection. This tests how well internal security can spot and stop a breach in progress—mirroring threats like double extortion.

5. Reporting & Debriefing
The red team compiles findings into a report detailing exploited vulnerabilities, security gaps, and response performance—along with tailored recommendations to strengthen the organisation’s defences.

What Are The Benefits Of Red Teaming?

  • Early identification of vulnerabilities – allowing companies to fix holes in their security system before attackers target key business information assets
  • Assessment and improvement of how the ability is able to detect, respond and prevent threats
  • Enhanced incident response and threat detection capabilities
  • Real-world simulation of cyber attacks – this can test defenses in a highly realistic way to better prepare the organisation
  • TTPs of threat actors are simulated in a way that is safe, risk managed and controlled

Tools and Techniques Used by Red Teams

  • Bloodhound
  • Cobalt Strike
  • EyeWitness
  • Githarvester
  • Maltego CE 4
  • Metasploit
  • Nikto 2
  • Nmap
  • OWASP Amass
  • Recon-ng 5
  • Shodan
  • Sn1per
  • Spiderfoot
  • theHarvester
  • the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

FAQs

What are the Facets of a Red Team Exercise?

A typical red team attack simultation is:

  • Goal-oriented – unlike typical penetration testing, red teaming is used to see if attackers can carry out actions which are specifically linked to events that the business wants to prevent
  • Threat-driven – red teaming uses advanced techniques, tactics and procedures which threat actors are likely to use to target the client’s organisation
  • Covert – these exercises are conducted as a cover assessment. They won’t have privileged information about the target so that they can more realistically simulate an external attack
  • Realistic – red team attacks are designed to simulate real-world cyberattacks as much as possible so that the organisation can practice and evaluate their response in a real-life scenario.

What is The Difference Between Red Teaming and Penetration Testing?

In comparison to Penetration Tests, red teaming is technically more complex, takes more time, and is a more thorough exercise of testing the organization’s response capabilities and the security measures they have in place. Unlike Penetration Testing, a red team assessment also tends to be objective-oriented.

Contact us today and we can work together to create a detailed plan based on your organisation’s cybersecurity needs.

What Types of Organisations Benefit from Red Teaming?

Any organisation that relies on security infrastructure to protect valuable assets and data can benefit from a Red Teaming assessment. This includes government agencies, financial institutions, healthcare organisations, and businesses of all sizes and industries.

For more information about this, explore our collection of expert guides or contact us today.

How Long Does a Typical Red Team Engagement Take?

Red team engagements typically run for four to six weeks, providing a thorough examination of your security defenses. Pen tests are shorter, usually one to two weeks, and focus on identifying specific vulnerabilities.

How Much Does Red Teaming Cost?

Every business should prioritsie a cybersecurity budget to protect themselves online.

Contact us for a personalised quote – once we have determined the scale of the required services we will be able to put together your cybersecurity plan.

Why Choose Rosca Technologies?

  1. Cross Sector Success

  2. We’re CREST Certified

  3. Multifaceted Approach

  4. Constant Progress

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