Red Team Assessment
Advanced adversary simulation to test your security controls
In scope
- Objectives and rules of engagement agreed with an executive sponsor
- Threat-informed scenario design
- Objective-based adversary simulation across people, process and technology
- Measurement of detection and response by your defensive team
- Joint replay session with the defensive team
You receive
- Engagement narrative: what was attempted, what worked, what was detected
- Detection and response timeline
- Prioritized improvement plan for prevention, detection and response
- Executive and board-level summary
- Debrief and replay session
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Basic Red Team
$25K
One objective at one site, using standard scenarios agreed at kickoff.
- Objectives
- 1
- Sites
- 1
- One agreed objective
- Executive and technical report
- Debrief with the defensive team
- — Custom tooling
- — On-site activity at more than one site
Advanced Red Team
$44K
Up to 2 objectives with scenarios tailored to the organization, across up to 2 sites.
- Objectives
- 2
- Sites
- 2
- Up to two objectives
- Tailored scenarios
- Detection and response timeline for the defensive team
- — Engagements longer than 4 weeks
Enterprise Red Team
$62.5K
Up to 3 objectives across up to 3 sites, with a joint replay session for the defensive team.
- Objectives
- 3
- Sites
- 3
- Up to three objectives
- Joint replay session
- Board-level summary
- — Ongoing adversary simulation — see Red Team Subscription
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a red team & adversary emulation engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Objectives & rules of engagement
Crown-jewel objectives and the threat actor to emulate are agreed with an executive sponsor; the blue team usually isn't told.
You see · A sponsor, objectives and a stop-work channel.
02Threat-informed planning
Scenarios built from the TTPs of adversaries relevant to your sector, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
You see · Sign-off on the scenario plan.
03Initial access
Phishing, exposed services or physical entry, whichever the scenario calls for.
You see · Nothing; this is where detection is tested.
04Objective pursuit
Persistence, privilege escalation and lateral movement toward the objective, with evasion appropriate to the scenario.
You see · Escalation if anything unsafe or critical is found.
05Detection & response measurement
Every action is time-stamped so it can be compared with what your SOC saw and did.
You see · A detection and response timeline.
06Replay & improvement plan
A joint replay with the defensive team, then prioritized improvements for prevention, detection and response.
You see · The narrative, the timeline and the plan.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
Related
Red Team Subscription
A standing offensive testing program in place of a once-a-year engagement. Each month our team runs a targeted assessment against an agreed part of your environment; each quarter a scenario-based attack tests how well your people and tooling detect and respond. The Premium tier adds two full red team engagements a year. Findings from every cycle feed one running improvement plan, so each round also checks whether the last round's fixes held. Targets, rules of engagement and testing windows are agreed at kickoff.
AI & Agentic Red Team
Offensive testing of LLMs and AI agents — prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool misuse, agent goal hijack, memory/context poisoning, model extraction, and agent identity abuse. Mapped to OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, OWASP LLM Top 10, and MITRE ATLAS.
AI/ML Security Assessment
Expert evaluation of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems security, from model development to deployment. Our assessment identifies vulnerabilities in AI/ML infrastructure, examines risks of data poisoning, adversarial attacks, and model manipulation while providing guidance for securing these advanced technologies.
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