Why choose Bulletproof red teaming
Bespoke Scenarios
Meet your organisation’s unique risk profile & engagement objectives with tailored, optimised scenarios
Expert Red Teams
Seasoned red team personnel bring years of adversarial expertise and insight to every engagement
Unique Insights
Expert red team testing gives you unparalleled security insights to power prioritised improvements
Competitive Prices
We design bespoke tests & tailored workshops accessible to all, without sacrificing test quality
What is red teaming?
Red teaming is an adversarial, threat-led method of security testing. A red team test aims to breach your defences by employing genuine tactics, techniques and procedures that a real-world cyber criminal would use. This goal-oriented-driven approach more accurately simulates an attack by a persistent threat actor on your cyber defences and security team.
Bulletproof red team pen testers use social engineering, penetration testing tools and creative thinking to identify vulnerabilities in networks, systems, buildings, people and processes. This makes red team assessments comprehensive in nature, providing an extensive insight into your business's security.
Bulletproof divides red team testing into the following distinct attack scenarios, each with its own aims and security outcomes:
- Red Team
- Black Team
- Purple Team
- Assumed Breach
- EDR/XDR Evaluation
Benefits of red team testing
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A real-world security test
Simulate a sophisticated hacking attempt from a determined adversary
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Discover & categorise risks
Identify which assets are at risk, including how & why they can be targeted
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Assess detection & response
Evaluate your capability to detect & respond to advanced security threats
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Eliminate bias & assumptions
External security tests challenge your security assumptions & uncover bias
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Find unknown vulnerabilities
Uncover hidden security weaknesses in your people, processes & technology
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Prioritise security investment
Implement better defences with a holistic, intel-based view of your security ops
Get the right red teaming service
Bulletproof offers a wide range of red teaming services to help your organisation simulate targeted attacks against your security controls. Explore our variety of red team services below.
Threat-led Testing
Threat led red team engagements follow a structured approach to threat simulation. The engagement is tailored to the specific threat group based on provided threat intelligence, and adjusted based on the organisations security posture.
The aim is to simulate a real-world breach scenario and evaluate the effectiveness of your security measures against a clear set of goals with defined success and failure conditions. The engagement heavily uses threat intelligence information to build a number of different scenarios and then simulates these attacks against the organisation. The approach and methodology for these is aligned with industry best practices such as TIBER-EU, DORA and STAR.
Red Team
Put your defences to the test against a real, persistent adversary.
Red team penetration testing is the only way to truly gauge how your business’ security defences react to a real-world threat. By simulating the resources and tools available to a determined adversary, red teaming reveals security flaws that you didn’t know you had. Red teaming is the most comprehensive security test available and demonstrates your commitment to business security.
All Bulletproof red team engagements are tailored to your specific business and objectives, providing an unrivalled training opportunity for your defensive teams and systems. Our approach, based on real world threats, is designed to evaluate the people, processes and technology within your organisation.
Black Team
Put your physical security defences to the ultimate test.
The aim of black teaming is to gain access to a restricted physical space, such as a particular office or data centre. Bulletproof’s skilled back team pen testers will use all tools at their disposal to model a determined, persistent adversary aiming to breach your physical defences. Find out how resistant your people, processes and technology are to social engineering, ethical hacking, tailgating, pretexting and much more.
Purple Team
Take a collaborative approach to improve the detection & prevention capabilities of your organisation.
Purple teaming simulates a wide range of techniques, tactics and procedures in a safe and collaborative way. Both red and blue teams work together to evaluate individual offensive actions commonly taken during a real-world attack, with the goal of remedying any issues. Purple team testing gives you a comprehensive overview of detection and response gaps mapped to industry-standard frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Assumed Breach
Move beyond classic authenticated penetration testing by using an objective & impact driven approach.
Assumed breach testing operates under the simple principle that a breach can and will happen. It is designed to identify how well your defence in depth would limit a real-world attacker and the effectiveness of protecting your critical business functions. Testing is objective driven and uncovers what an attacker can achieve via device compromise or other attack vector.
EDR/XDR Evaluation
Maximise the effectiveness of EDR/XDR systems with an in-depth test of its ability to detect & remove threats.
Put your EDR/XDR to the test and determine its efficacy with an expert evaluation from Bulletproof. In-depth configuration and effectiveness reviews of your chosen platforms and technology uncovers weaknesses and help you maximise the effectiveness of EDR/XDR systems. Bulletproof use a test, evaluate & improve approach to put your chosen provider to the test against commodity and bespoke threats.
Why your organisation needs red teaming
Red teaming is a powerful way to expose hidden threats and strengthen your security from the inside out. It gives your security team the insight to help you protect your valuable data and assets from targeted attacks.
Organisations of all sizes can use red teaming attack scenarios to better understand your security posture and assess how your organisation would defend against a determined and resourceful adversary. A key benefit is the ability to uncover blind spots caused by bias and assumptions, which can go unnoticed by other types of security testing. This makes a red team assessment a great way to test and improve your incident response capability.
What’s the difference between red teaming and a penetration test?
A Penetration tests attempt to find security vulnerabilities in a specific set of IT systems, whereas the goal of a red team assessment is to compromise your security defences using real techniques and tooling used by determined adversaries. The objective-based nature better simulates an attack from a determined cyber criminal against your networks and security controls. Red teaming can be combined with black teaming to provide a complete assessment of your organisation’s security posture.
Bulletproof’s experienced, adversarial tradecraft tests every layer of your organisation’s defences to provide a complete overview of your security risks. Red teaming is the most in-depth security assessment available, and an ideal way to strengthen systems across your business while showing your clients and stakeholders that you take security seriously.
Learn more about red teaming (FAQs)
While a red team uses tactics techniques and procedures (TTP) to simulate a real-world threat, a blue team is positioned within the network to recognise unusual behaviour and defend against an attempted attack. Bulletproof’s collaborative purple team assessments provide proof of concept attacks that show how an attacker could gain access to a specific system or set of systems, involving a blue team at various stages to recognise and monitor the attack as it proliferates through the network. A purple team assessment is the best way to assess the effectiveness of your blue team.
Absolutely. Bulletproof welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with organisations who have their own blue teams established, and coordinating the exercise is a great way to test the effectiveness of your current security controls and for understanding attack paths that may make your systems vulnerable to an external breach. These Purple Team engagements pit our experienced adversaries against your cyber defenders, with the goal of uncovering all threat detection and response weaknesses.
Red teaming is ideal for businesses who have an established security systems in place and already carry out regular penetration testing on their networks. However, organisations of any size and stage in their development can benefit from Red Team exercises. Our experienced security consultants will be able to advise you on exactly what will work for your business, and how to get the most value from your engagement.
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What our customers say
Bulletproof took the time to understand our penetration testing objectives, which showed in the results. The pen test was delivered on our tight timeframe and the threat management platform made it easy for us to remediate the penetration test results quickly and effectively.
Bulletproof's security qualifications
With OSCP & CREST certified expert pen testers and 7+ years in the industry, Bulletproof penetration testing services have a proven track record of finding flaws and helping businesses stay ahead of the hackers.
Red Team Techniques
Bulletproof red teaming follows a meticulous methodology, designed to provide flexibility and efficiency to power the best outcomes from your red team engagement.
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Recon & Attack Planning
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Attack Development
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Initial Compromise & Foothold
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Network Propagation
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Complete Objectives
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Additional Value & Reporting
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Debrief & Remediation Guidance
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Meet our red team
The breadth of skills we have in the red team allows us to be ultra-flexible and find innovative ways to circumvent the most mature cyber defences. We’re always pushing our capabilities and I’m proud of my team’s collective skills and expertise, not to mention the security outcomes we generate for our customers. Dominic Mortimer Red Team Specialist
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We’ve always been very impressed with the cyber security services Bulletproof provide us. Their professional approach, knowledge and flexibility have ensured they have become a key trusted partner in our supply chain.
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Full suite of red teaming services available: red team, black team, purple team, assumed breach & EDR/XDR assessment
- Advanced security testing from UK experts
- Model a determined real-world attacker
- Find hidden security weaknesses
- Uncover assumptions & bias in your security
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- Test defence in depth & incident response
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