Executive exercise narrative
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Adversary simulation
Red Team and Purple Team Security Services
Test whether layered defenses can prevent, detect and contain realistic attacker behavior across people, identity, endpoints, networks and cloud systems.
The business problem
Why this assessment matters.
Control assessments review components, while real intrusions cross boundaries. Organizations need to understand whether telemetry, analysts and response actions work together when a determined actor pursues a business objective.
Red team engagements independently test realistic paths. Purple team exercises bring attackers and defenders together to validate specific techniques, improve detections and preserve reusable test evidence.
Audit coverage
What we assess.
Final scope reflects your environment, critical systems, risk profile and assurance objective.
External reconnaissance and initial-access paths
Identity compromise and privilege escalation
Endpoint execution and persistence controls
Lateral movement and trust exploitation
Cloud and SaaS control visibility
Detection engineering and alert fidelity
Triage, containment and escalation actions
Critical-objective protection and recovery decisions
Assessment process
How the audit works.
Testing is evidence-led, risk-based and designed to protect business operations.
- Select threat scenarios, objectives and safety boundaries
- Develop an intelligence-informed exercise plan
- Execute controlled techniques with real-time safety oversight
- Record control observations and defender actions
- Replay priority techniques and validate improved detections
Engagement outputs
What your team receives.
Attack timeline and objective analysis
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Control and detection observations
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Detection-engineering backlog
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Purple-team validation record
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Standards and guidance
A recognizable basis for conclusions.
Applicable standards organize testing and reporting while the actual environment determines risk.
MITRE ATT&CK
NIST SP 800-115
TIBER-style threat-led principles
CISA red team guidance
PTES
Frequently asked questions
Planning your red team and purple team assessment.
How is a red team different from penetration testing?
Penetration testing finds and validates vulnerabilities in a defined scope. A red team pursues an agreed objective while testing detection and response across control layers.
What is a purple team exercise?
Attackers and defenders collaborate on selected techniques, observe telemetry and tune controls during structured test cycles.
Will the security team know about the exercise?
That depends on objectives. A small trusted group always provides safety oversight, while broader defender awareness can be limited or fully collaborative.
Can you emulate a specific threat group?
We can design scenarios around relevant tactics and techniques without claiming perfect replication of a named actor.
How do you protect production systems?
Rules of engagement define approved techniques, prohibited targets, test accounts, communication paths and immediate stop conditions.
Related assessments
Follow connected attack paths.
Request a Red Team and Purple Team audit
Discuss scope, timing, access requirements and the evidence your stakeholders need.