We collaboratively set clear goals for the engagement: is the aim to test detection capabilities, assess insider-threat resilience, evaluate third-party integrations, or challenge overall readiness? The scope and rules of engagement (RoE) are agreed from the start.
The red team gathers information, simulating how a real adversary would prepare: mapping networks, researching potential targets, identifying high-value assets, and seeking weak links.
SpearIT's red team executes a full-scale campaign, using stealth, social engineering, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and other advanced techniques, following proven adversary techniques.
Our red team engagements map techniques and attack paths to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework, ensuring adversary behaviors are structured, repeatable, and aligned with real-world threat actors. The internal security team typically remains unaware until findings are reported.
The goal isn’t just to penetrate, but to see whether your defenses (i.e. technology, monitoring tools, processes, staff) detect the intrusion, respond appropriately, and contain or remediate the threat.
SpearIT delivers a comprehensive report, outlining not only where vulnerabilities exist, but how attackers could exploit them, how far they could go, and where detection and response failed. The report includes prioritized recommendations and actionable remediation strategies.
The value of red teaming isn’t only in discovery. SpearIT can support long-term improvements: refining policies, hardening architecture, training staff, and helping integrate red teaming findings into continuous security operations.
We support on-premise infrastructure, cloud platforms, hybrid environments, web applications, APIs, and third-party integrations. Scoping is always aligned with your business requirements and rules of engagement.
Our Red Team engagements map attack paths and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, ensuring a structured, repeatable approach that replicates real threat actor behaviours.
The deliverables include (a) an executive summary, (b) detailed attack paths, (c) evidence and reporting on exploited weaknesses, and (d) prioritized remediation guidance. We also provide recommendations to improve your detection and response posture.
Yes — beyond the engagement, we assist in strengthening processes, refining security architecture, conducting workshops or training, and designing future exercises to improve long-term cyber resilience.
Any red team engagement is designed to be realistic but non-destructive. We enforce strict but mutually agreed rules of engagement (RoE), use production-safe techniques and payloads, and coordinate every action to avoid disruption or downtime. The goal is to assess resilience and response without impacting business operations. In the rare case a risk of disruption is identified, our team pauses the action and escalates it immediately using an agreed safety protocol.
The Rules of Engagement document that is mutually agreed between SpearIT and the interested party, defines a simple, reliable stop mechanism (e.g., hotline + authenticated request) and immediate remediation support. The provider must be able to halt testing immediately on instruction and document the action.
Yes — a scoped NDA is standard and essential. It protects sensitive system details, test methodologies, and any personal or business data encountered during the engagement.