Introduction
Red Team Exercise unfolds security vulnerabilities by penetrating your networks, assessing your processes, and testing the defensive capabilities of your security teams in all possible ways. This helps in taking the necessary steps to update your security layers accordingly.
Methodology
What Is the Difference Between Pen Testing and Teaming?
Penetration Testing is a must have for any organization. A pen tester is designated to ethically hack and evaluate your environment. In this role, they will be the point of contact and operate as the brains behind your security scope. An organization may hire someone specifically for pen testing, or may have someone complete penetration testing as part of their duties.
A teaming exercise is basically a penetration test, but from a military perspective. The red team is the attacker, which assumes there is also a defender: your organization’s IT security group. The primary difference is that a pen test is scope-based, and that scope may not involve strengthening the organization’s defense. It may also be conducted by a single individual. Red teams, on the other hand, comprise multiple participants, conduct testing without the knowledge of your staff, and may also operate continuously or routinely.
When Should You Use a Red Team?
When you’ve implemented new security software, programs, or tactics in your organization
You will want to see how it fares against those of true attackers. Your red team should then come in and emulate attacks of adversaries—without the knowledge of your employee base—to see how these implementations stand.
When a new breach or attack occurs
Whether this is happening to your environment or not, when seeing or hearing of the latest attack, you should see how you would fare if it actually happened to you–and hopefully do so before it happens in real-time.
Routinely
As your organization continues to grow, and while the threats seem to be quiet, it’s good to test.
How It Works?
Goal Setting
Recon
Pentest + Phishing
Exploitation
Internal Access
Escalation
