Red Teaming is an intelligence-led, objective-based security assessment that simulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of persistent real-world attackers with internal access to your organization.Unlike penetration testing (often focused on finding as many vulnerabilities as possible within scope), red teaming aims to achieve specific objectives such as accessing data, gaining domain admin privileges or disrupting a key business process while attempting to evade detection.Understanding the effects of security investments becomes easier when the real-world effectiveness (or lack thereof) of controls and technologies are challenged.

First, we define clear objectives and rules of engagement. Scheduling is also important since red teaming can be disruptive as one of the core goals is to test the blue team's detection and response capabilities.Once the rules of engagement are clear, our team starts the attack simulation and tests the resilience of the organization, trying to gain persistent access while evading detection and monitoring measures.

After a red teaming exercise, you will receive a comprehensive report that describes the attack narrative, which is the chronological story of the simulated attack.It will also include objectives assessment (indication of whether the predefined objectives were achieved), identified vulnerabilities, detection and response evaluation, and actionable recommendations.There will be hardly any surprises for your organization when it comes to system security, as you will have already considered a wide range of risks and eliminated many of them.