Simulating Real-World Adversaries

Service Overview

Red Teaming is not a penetration test – it is a goal-oriented, unrestricted attack simulation designed to mirror the techniques of advanced persistent threats (APTs). SilentGrid’s Red Team engagements test your organisation’s ability to defend against multi-phase, stealthy adversaries who aim to bypass controls created by your technology, processes, and personnel security awareness.

Our approach goes beyond vulnerability identification, and actively simulate real-world intrusion scenarios, assessing how effectively your defences can prevent, detect, and respond to prolonged attacks.

Red Teaming exposes the true state of your security operations, incident response capabilities, and detection blind spots – delivering insights that cannot be gained through standard penetration tests.

Why Choose SilentGrid for Red Teaming?

Real-World Adversary Emulation

SilentGrid’s Red Team draws from cutting-edge research, custom tooling, and threat intelligence, emulating the behaviours of nation-state actors, ransomware groups, and insider threats. We replicate the techniques adversaries use to compromise and persist within enterprise environments.

• Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Long-term engagement simulating sophisticated actors maintaining persistence for weeks or months.
• Custom payload development and bypass techniques targeting endpoint detection and response (EDR) and network-based security controls.

Holistic Assessment – Beyond Technology

Red Teaming challenges not just your technical controls but the effectiveness of your entire security ecosystem. This includes:

• Incident Response Teams (SOC/Blue Teams) – Can your team detect subtle indicators of compromise (IoC)?
• Security Processes – How well are alerts triaged, escalated, and contained?
• Employee Resilience – Can users recognise and report phishing, vishing, and other social engineering attempts?

How We Operate – The Red Team Lifecycle

SilentGrid follows a structured yet adaptive approach to Red Teaming, allowing flexibility as new attack paths emerge during engagements.

1. Reconnaissance and Target Selection

• Passive and active intelligence gathering to profile external attack surfaces.
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT) and social engineering to identify exploitable vectors.

2. Initial Compromise

• Targeting externally accessible infrastructure, third-party services, and employee endpoints.
• Techniques include spear phishing, supply chain compromise, and application exploitation.

3. Persistence and Privilege Escalation

• Establishing footholds within compromised environments.
• Persistence techniques bypassing EDR and maintaining access through custom tooling.

4. Lateral Movement and Internal Reconnaissance

• Credential harvesting, Active Directory exploitation, and pivoting across networks.
• Identifying sensitive systems, mapping internal environments, and expanding access.

5. Objective Execution and Exfiltration

• Attaining predefined objectives such as data exfiltration, domain dominance, or insider threat emulation.
• Testing data loss prevention (DLP) mechanisms and network monitoring tools.

Key Objectives and Outcomes

• Expose Security Blind Spots
  SilentGrid identifies attack paths and techniques that bypass traditional defences. Our goal is to highlight areas adversaries are likely to exploit.

• Test Detection and Response Capabilities
  We assess how quickly and effectively your SOC, IR teams, and SIEMs detect malicious activity.

• Evaluate Security Investment Effectiveness
  Red Teaming helps quantify the effectiveness of your security tools, controls, and incident response processes, ensuring they perform as intended under real conditions.

• Educate and Uplift Defensive Teams
  By engaging directly with blue teams, SilentGrid provides debriefs, insights, and tactical feedback to strengthen detection and incident response capabilities.

Deliverables and Reporting

SilentGrid’s Red Team engagements provide more than just reports – they deliver actionable intelligence to guide long-term improvements:

• Comprehensive Engagement Report
  A detailed breakdown of attack paths, vulnerabilities exploited, and post-exploitation activity.

• MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
  Each step of the engagement is mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to highlight gaps in detection and response.

• Executive Summary
  High-level reporting for senior stakeholders, summarising business risks and strategic recommendations.

• Technical Debrief for Blue Teams
  An in-depth review of the engagement with blue teams and SOC analysts, providing insights into the techniques used, missed detections, and recommendations for improving defensive capabilities.

• Proof of Concept (PoC) Payloads
  Where applicable, SilentGrid provides custom payloads used during the engagement used to bypass EDRs and detection rules.

Continuous Adversary Simulation

Red Teaming is not a one-time exercise – threats evolve constantly. SilentGrid offers continuous adversary simulation services to ensure your organisation is always prepared.

Through ongoing engagements, we:

• Re-test Remediated Attack Paths to validate defences.
• Introduce New Techniques and TTPs aligned with emerging adversary tactics.
• Simulate Evolving Threat Groups, adapting based on the latest threat intelligence.

Is Red Teaming Right for Your Organisation?

Red Teaming is ideal for organisations that:

• Operate mature security programmes and want to test their full defensive capabilities.
• Need to evaluate how well their SOC, IR, and blue teams handle real-world threats.
• Seek to identify unknown attack paths beyond vulnerability assessments.
• Require executive-level insights into security resilience and ROI.

Get Started Today

Ready to challenge your defences and gain adversary-level insights into your security posture?
Contact Us to schedule a Red Team Engagement and harden your organisation against advanced threats.