Red Team Assessment Services

A red team assessment is a full-scope adversary simulation — testers act like a real attacker with a specific objective, such as accessing financial data or achieving domain admin access, combining technical exploitation, social engineering, and sometimes physical security testing, without the narrow constraints of a scoped penetration test. It’s designed to test your organization’s actual detection and response capability, not just find vulnerabilities. PS INFOSEC delivers red team engagements for organizations with a reasonably mature security program that are ready to test more than just their technical controls.

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What Is a Red Team Assessment?

Where a penetration test operates within a defined, agreed scope to find and demonstrate vulnerabilities, a red team assessment simulates a complete adversary attack chain — often starting from a realistic initial compromise (like a successful phishing email) and working toward a specific objective, using whatever combination of technical, human, and sometimes physical vectors a real attacker might use.

Critically, red team engagements are often run with your internal security or SOC team unaware that testing is happening — giving a genuine, unbiased read on whether your detection and response capability actually works under realistic conditions, rather than testing that’s been telegraphed in advance.

What’s Included

Multi-Vector Adversary Simulation

Combining network, application, and human-layer attack vectors in a single coordinated engagement

Social Engineering & Phishing Campaigns

Realistic phishing or pretexting as part of achieving the simulated attacker's objective

Active Directory Attack Path Testing

Mapping and testing privilege escalation paths toward domain compromise

Breach & Attack Simulation

Simulating specific attack scenarios to test detection capability against known techniques

Purple Team Exercises

Collaborative sessions where the red team and your defenders work together in real time to build detection capability

Detailed Attack Narrative Report

A full account of the attack chain used, not just a list of individual findings

How a Red Team Engagement Runs

Why Red Teaming Tests Detection, Not Just Vulnerabilities

An organization can pass every individual penetration test and still fail to detect a real attacker, because detection and response is a separate capability from having patched systems — it depends on whether your monitoring, SOC, and incident response processes actually work together under realistic pressure.

Red teaming is specifically designed to test that combined capability, often revealing gaps that individual technical assessments never would, because those assessments aren’t testing whether your team notices and responds — only whether the vulnerability exists.

What You Get: Deliverables

Attack Narrative Report

A full account of the attack chain, not just a list of isolated findings

Detection Timeline

When (or whether) your team detected the activity, and how that compares to the actual attack timeline

Objective Outcome

Whether the defined objective was achieved, and exactly how

Purple Team Findings

Specific detection improvements identified through the collaborative session

Remediation & Detection Roadmap

Prioritized recommendations covering both technical fixes and detection capability improvements

Industries We Serve

We’ve delivered engagements across a range of sectors, including:

Banking & Financial Services
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Information Technology & SaaS
Manufacturing
Government & Public Sector
Retail & E-Commerce
Education
Telecommunications
Logistics & Transportation
Professional Services

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between red teaming and penetration testing?

Penetration testing finds and exploits vulnerabilities within a defined, agreed scope. Red teaming simulates a real adversary's full attack chain toward a specific objective — often unannounced to your internal team — specifically to test detection and response capability, not just find technical flaws.

What is a purple team exercise?

A collaborative session where the red team (attackers) and your blue team (defenders) work together in real time, so your team learns to recognize the techniques being used as they happen — turning the engagement into a direct capability-building exercise, not just a report.

Do we need to have done penetration testing before red teaming?

Typically, yes — red teaming is most valuable for organizations with a reasonably mature security program already, since it tests detection and response rather than finding basic vulnerabilities that earlier-stage testing (VA, PT) would typically catch first.

Will our security team know the red team engagement is happening?

Often, no — for the most realistic read on detection capability, red team engagements are frequently run without prior knowledge of your SOC or security team, though this is agreed with leadership during scoping.

What does a 'successful' red team engagement look like?

Both outcomes are valuable: if the red team achieves its objective undetected, that reveals a genuine gap worth closing. If your team detects and stops the activity, that confirms your defenses are working — either way, you get real data about your actual security posture.