Adversary Simulation
Red Team Operations
Objective-driven simulated intrusions that test your people, process, and technology together — the way a real adversary would.
A red team engagement is not a broader penetration test — it's an adversary simulation with a defined objective, run against your full detection and response capability. RedShield Defense red team operations test whether your organization can detect and respond to a determined, patient attacker, not just whether a vulnerability exists.
Engagements are scoped around real business objectives — reaching a crown-jewel data store, achieving domain compromise, or testing a specific incident response scenario — and executed using tradecraft modeled on the threat actors most relevant to your industry.
Capabilities
What's included in this engagement.
Objective-Based Engagements
Scenarios built around your actual crown-jewel assets and threat model, not generic goals.
Initial Access Simulation
Phishing, physical, and external exploitation vectors modeled on real intrusion campaigns.
Lateral Movement & Privilege Escalation
Post-compromise tradecraft to test detection and segmentation controls under realistic conditions.
Purple Team Collaboration
Optional collaborative sessions with your SOC to validate detection coverage in real time.
Physical Security Testing
On-site social engineering and physical access testing where in scope.
Detailed Attack Narrative
A full timeline of the engagement mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for your response team.
Process
How the engagement runs.
Objective Definition
Engagement goals and rules of engagement defined with your security leadership.
Reconnaissance & Access
Adversary-modeled reconnaissance and initial access attempts against your organization.
Escalation & Objective Pursuit
Lateral movement and privilege escalation toward the defined engagement objective.
Debrief & Detection Review
Full timeline walkthrough with your SOC, mapped against what was and wasn't detected.
17 yrs
Combined offensive security expertise
MITRE ATT&CK
Every engagement mapped to a standard framework
100%
Engagements conducted under signed rules of engagement
Your infrastructure is a target. Find out where before an adversary does.
Speak with our security engineers about a tailored assessment scoped to your environment, industry, and risk posture.