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30 March 2021

What Is Red Team?

What Is Red Team?
What Is Red Team?

Red Team is a dedicated cybersecurity team formed to target the vulnerabilities, weak points, systems, and users within your organisation, in order to identify and evaluate limitations and risks. This team employs a specialised cybersecurity approach and consists of attack-focused experts who possess knowledge of the methodologies and techniques used by real cyber attackers.

Red Teaming Teams simultaneously conduct cyber attack simulations targeting an organisation’s employees, software in use, hardware (all IT, OT, and IoT infrastructure), and facilities — with the goal of ensuring the security of the organisation’s data and infrastructure. At the same time, through custom-developed tools and tactics, they have the capability to present a realistic attack simulation and demonstrate the vulnerabilities that could emerge during a cyber attack, as well as the potential damage that could be caused by exploiting those vulnerabilities.

What Is Red Team Service?

Red Team service is a dedicated cyber attack simulation designed to measure how resilient an organisation’s devices, networks, employees, applications, and security controls could be against a potential attack. Red Teaming attacks are conducted as special operations. During these operations, expert cybersecurity consultants use different types of attack scenarios against different targets in order to uncover potential vulnerabilities. In general, financial, military, energy, and telecommunications companies frequently and importantly prefer this service.

Through Red Team simulations conducted once or twice a year, organisations gain the opportunity to examine and evaluate their corporate network against internal and external threats — all the way to human-focused threats.

Although Red Team service resembles penetration testing, they are distinguished from one another by the methodologies and techniques employed. While the general aim in penetration testing is the discovery of vulnerabilities, Red Team service additionally offers the ability to test defensive mechanisms, response times, and detection capabilities alongside uncovering the organisation’s vulnerabilities.

Red Team is conducted as quietly and covertly as possible. At the same time, the process takes significantly longer than a penetration test. Red Team simulations generally resemble targeted cyber attacks (APT).

Red Team Members

A “Red Team (Kırmızı Takım)” is formed by bringing together individuals who are experts in their respective fields. This elite team tests the effectiveness of strategies, tactics, procedures, and personnel, and creates entry points to infiltrate the organisation. At a minimum, Red Team members possess the capability to carry out activities in the following areas:

For Red Team service tailored to your organisation, you can contact our experts at [email protected] to obtain detailed information.

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