Red Teaming Engagement

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https://www.fireeye.com/mandiant/red-team-assessment.html

Red Teaming is an objective-led multi-layered attack simulation exercise. This exercise is based on the identification of the threat risk level the organization’s assets are exposed to. Red Teaming also challenges the Incident Response Team capabilities by emulating a real-world scenario to take on the different types of threat actor roles such as Hacktivists, Cyberterrorists, Espionage, etc defining an organisation’s overall security posture.

The ultimate goal of a Red Teamer is to gain access to sensitive corporate assets.

Penetration Testing vs Red Teaming

• Penetration Testing focuses on finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them while Red Teamer goes an extra mile to perform a post-exploitation method to gain access to an organisation’s critical asset.
• The Penetration test is more project focused, whereas, red teaming is objective/scenario-based Testing.
• Penetration Testers work within a defined scope; Red Team has a broad scope and has very little limitation to what it shouldn’t do.
• Penetration Testing is a short-lived project testing requiring a day to up to 2 weeks of pentesting; whereas in Red Team…