Of all the available cyber security assessments, a simulated cyber-attack is as close as you can get to understanding how prepared your organisation is to defend against a skilled and persistent hacker. 

 The main differences between red teaming and penetration testing are depth and scope. Pen testing is designed to identify and exploit as many vulnerabilities as possible over a short period of time, while red teaming is a deeper assessment conducted over a period of weeks and designed to test an organisation’s detection and response capabilities and achieve set objectives, such as data exfiltration.

 A Red Team Operation from Securenass is designed to far exceed the remit of traditional security testing by rigorously challenging the effectiveness of technology, personnel and processes to detect and respond to a highly targeted attack conducted over an extended period of time.

Example goals of a Red Team Operation

• Gaining access to a segmented environment holding sensitive data
• Taking control of an IoT device or a specialist piece of equipment
• Compromising the account credentials of a company director
• Obtaining physical access to a server room