Red team Assessment
Would your team actually catch a real attacker?
Full-scope adversary
Objective-based
Tests detection & response
Often unannounced
A full-scope adversary simulation with a real objective — combining technical exploitation, social engineering and sometimes physical access — run to test whether your detection and response actually works, not just whether a vulnerability exists.
Red team assessment
The test that measures your defenders, not just your defences.
For organizations with a reasonably mature security program, ready to test more than their technical controls.
Full-scope adversary
Testers act like a real attacker with a specific objective — not a narrow, scoped test.
Multi-vector by design
Technical exploitation, social engineering and sometimes physical access, combined.
Tests detection & response
Measures whether your monitoring, SOC and IR actually work — not just whether bugs exist.
Run unannounced
Often without your SOC’s knowledge, for a genuine, unbiased read on real-world response.
Builds capability
A purple team debrief turns the engagement into lasting detection improvement.
The short version
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, engagements are often run with your SOC unaware — so you get an honest read on three things a scoped test can’t measure:
Detection
Whether your monitoring actually notices a real attacker moving through the environment.
Response
Whether your SOC and IR processes work together under realistic pressure.
Real exposure
How far a genuine compromise could realistically go before it’s caught.
What’s included
A real attacker’s full toolkit — pointed at your defences.
Technical, human and detection-focused vectors combined into one coordinated engagement.
Detection is its own capability
You can pass every pentest and still miss a real attacker.
Being patched isn’t the same as being watched. Detection and response is a separate capability — and the only way to know it works is to test it under realistic pressure.
What technical tests can’t tell you
Vulnerability found ≠ attacker noticed.
A pentest confirms a flaw exists — not whether anyone would notice it being used.
Scoped, announced testing telegraphs the attack in advance.
Monitoring, SOC and IR are never tested working together under pressure.
Gaps in detection stay invisible until a real attacker finds them.
What a red team reveals
Your combined defence, under real pressure.
Whether your team actually notices an attacker moving toward an objective.
How quickly detection turns into a real, coordinated response.
Gaps that individual technical assessments would never surface.
A concrete, evidenced picture of your true security posture.
How it runs
From objective to debrief, exactly as an adversary would.
A realistic attack chain toward an agreed goal — with both outcomes, caught or not, giving you real data.
01
Objective definition
Agree the specific goal — access to a defined data set or system.
02
Reconnaissance
Gather intelligence on the target the way a real attacker would.
03
Initial access
Achieve a foothold, often via social engineering or an external flaw.
04
Lateral movement
Move toward the objective, escalating privileges along the way.
05
Objective or detection
Reach the goal — or get caught. Both outcomes are valuable data.
06
Debrief & purple team
Walk the full attack chain with your team to build detection going forward.
What you get
What lands on your leadership’s desk.
Proof of impact leadership can grasp, and detail your engineers can act on the same day.
01
Attack Narrative Report
A full account of the attack chain used — not just a list of isolated findings.
02
Detection Timeline
When (or whether) your team detected activity, against the real attack timeline.
03
Objective Outcome
Whether the defined objective was achieved, and exactly how.
04
Purple Team Findings
Specific detection improvements identified through the collaborative session.
05
Remediation & Detection Roadmap
Prioritized fixes covering both technical gaps and detection capability.
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Cybersecurity Engagements Scoped to Your Business
Every assessment is scoped to your systems and risk profile, so final pricing depends on what’s being tested — not a fixed monthly plan. These three tiers give a sense of what’s typically included at each stage.
Starter Security
Ideal for Small Businesses
Ideal for: small businesses getting their first formal security review
Vulnerability Assessment (network + application)
CVSS-based severity report
Remediation guidance
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Advanced Protection
Ideal for growing companies
Ideal for: growing companies with a customer-facing product
Vulnerability Assessment (network + application)
CVSS-based severity report
Remediation guidance
Web Application & API Security
Testing
Free retest after remediation
Enterprise Security
Ideal for Larger Organizations
Ideal for: larger organizations or businesses facing a compliance milestone
Full Enterprise Cybersecurity
Assessment & Compliance
Services scope
Cloud, application,
infrastructure & compliance testing in one engagement
Consolidated Executive Dashboard & remediation roadmap
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