Red Teaming

Realistic, end-to-end evaluation of people, processes, and technology, utilizing the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries.

While often confused with penetration testing, red teaming serves a fundamentally different purpose. Traditional penetration testing aims to find as many vulnerabilities as possible within a defined scope and timeframe. Red teaming, by contrast, is an adversary-simulated, goal-oriented campaign. A red team seeks a realistic path that a capable attacker might take—often without alerting internal security teams (the “blue team”) until after the operation concludes.

Instead of focusing solely on technical flaws, red teaming evaluates the organization’s overall security posture, including how well teams detect, respond to, and recover from attacks; how processes hold up under pressure; and whether physical security, social engineering resilience, and internal procedures are robust enough to withstand real threats. 

For organizations with mature cybersecurity programs or those that aim to build one, red teaming becomes an indispensable step.

Scoping & Objectives

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.

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Reconnaissance & Planning

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.

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Attack Simulation

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.

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Incident Response & Detection Testing

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.

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Reporting & Recommendations

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.

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Post-Engagement Follow-Up

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Services

Cybersecurity Testing & Assurance Services

Independent technical evaluations — from penetration testing and phishing simulations to full red-team exercises — to validate resilience and build confidence in your defenses.

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Risk-Based Vulnerabilities Management (RBVM)

We help organizations move beyond patch lists by prioritizing vulnerabilities according to exploitability, business impact, and regulatory requirements. This ensures remediation efforts focus on the issues that truly reduce risk and strengthen resilience.

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Red Teaming

Simulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries, we evaluate end-to-end how well your organization’s people, processes, and technologies detect, respond, and recover from a realistic attack.

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