Red Team Security Services

Red Team Security Services Key Features

Our red teaming methodology has been meticulously crafted to offer flexibility, clarity, and support, allowing our clients to act with confidence.

• Offensive Security Experts – Our team of seasoned and accredited professionals use their expertise in data security to test every aspect of an organization's cybersecurity controls and incident response protocols against the most stringent technical, legal and regulatory standards
• Intelligence-Driven Testing – Our red team operations incorporate evasion, deception, and stealth techniques to emulate the methods used by the most sophisticated threat actors to simulate a realistic cyberattack and produce actionable security outcomes.
• Blended Attack Methods – We use a wide variety of attack techniques to test the strength of a client’s defenses, including phishing, social engineering, exploitation of vulnerable services, proprietary adversarial tools and techniques and physical access methods.
• In-Depth Reporting – Our experts provide key stakeholders with a comprehensive post-engagement report, offering a full overview of their assessment and practical insights to support remediation of any identified risks.

• Customizable Terms of Engagement – Our approach is tailored to meet a client’s needs and their level of security maturity. We test the effectiveness of security controls by simulating both internal and external threat actors across various attack domains, including OSINT (open-source intelligence) gathering, network reconnaissance, custom social engineering and phishing campaigns.
• Comprehensive, Actionable Findings – Kroll’s adversarial simulation follows the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) frameworks. Our goal is to provide a quantifiable effectiveness rating across both attack and defense surfaces through entire attack chain to better inform strategic decision-making.
• Ongoing Collaborative Support – We work with our clients to devise a testing strategy that aligns with natural business cycles. The program may include red team, social engineering, penetration testing and purple team services. Our team can also assist with strategic and tactical remediation so the client can prevent and respond to real-world attacks and minimize their long-term risk.

Red Team Objectives – Examples

• Accessing segmented environments housing sensitive data
• Seizing control of an IoT device or specialized equipment
• Compromising senior staff members’ account credentials
• Fraudulently obtaining privileges to deploy ransomware across the environment
• Gaining access to OT/ICS zone 
• Obtaining access to a sensitive physical location, like a server room
• Phishing or social engineering campaigns directed at an individual user or group
• Bypassing established security controls (e.g., endpoint detection and response (EDR), data loss prevention (DLP), email security or anti-bot controls).

Red Team Testing Methodology

Kroll’s red team operations experts use a systemic approach to test the capacity of a client organization’s threat detection and response capabilities. The stages of a typical red team engagement might include:

• Reconnaissance– The success of any red team test is contingent on the quality of information our team has upfront. Kroll’s security experts use a wide variety of OSINT tools, techniques, and sources to gather intel about the client’s networks, employees and in-use security systems that could be used to compromise the target.
• Staging– After identifying vulnerable access points, our team devises a plan of attack. Then they enter “staging” phase, which includes setting up and concealing resources and groundwork needed to launch an attack (e.g., arranging servers to perform "command and control"(C2) operations and social engineering activities).

• Initial Access– During the initial access phase of a red team operation, Kroll’s ethical hackers establish a foothold in the target environment. To achieve their objective, our hackers may try to exploit any discovered gaps or vulnerabilities in the system, brute-force weak employee passwords and launch phishing attacks or drop malicious payloads using fake emails.
• Internal Compromise– After getting a foothold in the target network, the red team shifts its focus to executing the operation's objectives, which may include lateral movement across the network, elevating privileges, and data extraction.
• Reporting and Analysis– At the conclusion of a red team operation, our experts draft a comprehensive report to convey the results of the exercise to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. The report summary typically includes an overview of the effectiveness of the current security program, methods and attack vectors used in the simulation, and recommendations for mitigating and remediating future risks.

Red Teaming Part and the Cyber Risk Retainer

Kroll’s red team security services can be packaged as part of our client-friendly Cyber Risk Retainer, along with our slate of other valuable cybersecurity solutions, including tabletop exercises, risk assessments, cloud security services and more. With the Cyber Risk Retainer, our also clients receive unique discounts as well as access to Kroll’s elite digital forensics and response team, which offers services like crisis communications and litigation support to help when their organization is most in need.