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Your VAPT already comes back clean
You run regular penetration testing and it consistently turns up no critical or high findings.
Services / Red Team Operations
Red Team
Operations
Full-scope adversary simulation for Indian SaaS and fintech teams that need to know whether their detection and response actually work — not just whether their systems have unpatched vulnerabilities. We test people, process, and technology together, the way a real attacker would.
2–6 weeks
MITRE ATT&CK-aligned
Executive + Full Kill Chain
Yes — included
RBI / SEBI / CERT-In-aligned, ISO 27001
Before you enquire
Is Red Teaming the Right Test for You?
Red teaming is a stress test for detection and response — not a way to find your first round of vulnerabilities. It's the right fit if:
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You're regulator-facing
You're RBI-, SEBI-, or CERT-In-regulated and need to demonstrate advanced threat-simulation readiness, not just a vulnerability scan.
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You have a SOC to test
You operate a SOC or a SIEM/EDR stack and want to know if it actually catches a real intrusion attempt.
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You hold sensitive data
You handle customer financial data or PII and need board-level assurance that goes beyond a pentest report.
If your last VAPT still turned up critical or high findings, or you don't yet have a monitored SOC, a web application penetration test or full VAPT engagement will give you more immediate value — and we'll tell you that directly in a scoping call rather than sell you a red team engagement you're not ready for.
Common confusion
Red Team Operations vs. Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing
- Goal — Find and catalogue as many exploitable vulnerabilities as possible in a defined scope
- Awareness — Your security team usually knows testing is happening
- Scope — Specific systems, applications, or network segments
- Best for — Validating fixes, routine compliance testing, pre-launch checks
- Outcome — A prioritised vulnerability list with remediation steps
Red Team Operations
- Goal — Reach one or more defined adversary objectives without being stopped
- Awareness — Typically unannounced to your SOC/blue team, known only to a small executive group
- Scope — People, process, and technology together — phishing, physical access, and systems
- Best for — Testing whether detection and response actually work under a real, multi-stage attack
- Outcome — A kill-chain narrative plus a detection/response scorecard
Not sure which one fits your current maturity? Talk to us before you scope anything — we'd rather point you at the right engagement than the more expensive one.
How we work
Our Engagement Methodology
We simulate the full adversary kill chain — from initial access to objective completion — mapped to MITRE ATT&CK to give your blue team measurable, actionable results.
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Threat Intelligence & Planning
Define target objectives, crown jewel assets, and threat actor profiles relevant to your business logic — not just your tech stack. Build a custom attack plan based on real adversaries relevant to your industry, and agree rules of engagement, before a single packet is sent.
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Initial Access
Multi-vector initial access attempts including spear-phishing with custom lures, vishing campaigns, credential stuffing against exposed portals, and exploitation of internet-facing vulnerabilities and supply chain weaknesses.
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Persistence & Defence Evasion
Establish covert footholds using custom C2 infrastructure, scheduled tasks, registry modifications, and living-off-the-land techniques. Bypass EDR, AV, and SIEM detections without triggering alerts.
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Lateral Movement & Privilege Escalation
Move through the network simulating a real threat actor — credential harvesting, Pass-the-Hash, Kerberoasting, token impersonation, and Active Directory escalation to domain dominance.
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Objective Completion
Reach defined objectives — simulated data exfiltration, ransomware deployment simulation, access to crown jewel systems — demonstrating the real business impact of a successful breach with full evidence chain.
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Purple Team & Reporting
Collaborative debrief with your blue team to replay attack paths, tune detection rules, and improve response playbooks. Full kill-chain report with MITRE ATT&CK heatmap, timeline, and prioritised hardening recommendations.
Attack surface
What a Red Team Engagement Covers
Scope is agreed with you upfront and can include any combination of the following.
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Web & API attack surface
Manual, business-logic-aware testing of customer-facing and internal APIs — not just automated scanning.
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Cloud & identity
AWS/Azure/GCP misconfigurations, IAM escalation paths, and cross-tenant boundary testing.
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Network & Active Directory
Lateral movement, credential harvesting, and domain escalation to test internal segmentation.
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People
Phishing, vishing, and pretexting calibrated to your industry and org structure.
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Physical
Badge and visitor-workflow testing at your premises, where in scope.
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Detection & response
Whether your SOC/SIEM actually catches any of the above — and how fast.
Our arsenal
Tools Used
Custom C2 infrastructure combined with industry-leading offensive frameworks to simulate sophisticated, nation-state-level threat actors.
Cobalt Strike
Havoc C2
Sliver
Brute Ratel C4
Metasploit
GoPhish
Evilginx3
Modlishka
Impacket
Mimikatz
Rubeus
BloodHound
PowerSploit
BOFs (Beacon Object Files)
Donut
ScareCrow
Ligolo-ng
NetExec
Ghostwriter
Custom Implants (C/Go)
Why it matters
What You Get
Full Kill-Chain Report
A complete narrative of the engagement — every step from initial access to objective — with a MITRE ATT&CK heatmap, timestamped evidence, and mapped detection gaps your blue team missed.
Purple Team Session
A collaborative replay session with your SOC and blue team — we walk through each attack technique, help tune your SIEM rules, and build detection logic so you catch the same TTPs next time.
Executive Debrief
A board-ready presentation summarising the attack narrative, business risk exposure, and strategic security investment priorities — communicated without technical jargon.
Engagement Attestation
A signed letter confirming scope, dates, and findings summary for your auditors and regulators — supporting evidence for your security programme.
Post-Remediation Validation
Once your team addresses the findings, we re-run the relevant attack paths to confirm they're closed — so "fixed" means verified, not just reported.
Detection & Response Scorecard
A scored breakdown of your blue team's detection rate, mean time to detect (MTTD), and mean time to respond (MTTR) — giving you concrete metrics to track security improvement over time.
NDA & Strict OpSec
All engagements operate under mutual NDA with strict operational security. C2 infrastructure is dedicated per engagement and fully decommissioned upon completion.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does a red team engagement take?
Most Grey Shield red team engagements run 2–6 weeks depending on scope, number of objectives, and how much reconnaissance time is agreed in the rules of engagement.
How is this different from the VAPT we already do every year?
VAPT systematically finds and catalogues vulnerabilities within an agreed scope. A red team engagement instead picks a small number of adversary objectives and tests whether your people, detection tooling, and response process can stop a determined attacker from reaching them — it assumes your basic hygiene is already in place.
Do you test phishing and physical access, or only our systems?
Scope is agreed with you upfront. Most engagements include at least a phishing component; physical intrusion and vishing are included where relevant and in scope.
What happens after the engagement ends?
You get a full kill-chain report, an executive debrief, and a purple team session where we walk your SOC through exactly what we did and help tune detection rules. We also offer a post-remediation validation pass once fixes are in place.
Is red teaming required for RBI- or SEBI-regulated companies?
Requirements vary by entity type and regulator guidance, and change over time — confirm your specific obligation with your compliance team or regulator. Our methodology is built to produce evidence — a kill-chain report, detection scorecard, and attestation letter — that maps to advanced threat-simulation expectations common in RBI, SEBI, and CERT-In guidance.
We don't have a SOC yet — should we still do this?
Probably not yet. Red teaming is most valuable once you have some detection capability to test. If you don't have a SOC or monitored EDR/SIEM, a penetration test will surface more actionable findings for your budget — we'll tell you this directly in a scoping call.
Ready to be tested?
Find Out If Your Defences
Actually Hold
Red team engagements are scoped individually. Get a confidential consultation with one of our senior operators to discuss objectives, threat profiles, and timeline.