It holistically assesses all areas of your organisation, across people, process and technology, to determine how these factors can be abused and exploited to achieve a set of relevant attack objectives. By replicating the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by advanced threat actors, JUMPSEC perform a covert simulation exercise designed to assess an organisation’s susceptibility to an authentic and realistic targeted attack.
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What is Red Teaming?
Red Team attack simulation is designed to evaluate your organisation’s susceptibility to cyber-attack. A Red Team is a covert exercise that spans the entirety of an end-to-end cyber attack from the perspective of an external attacker with malicious intent.
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Our Approach To Red Teaming
What you can expect from a red team operation from JUMPSEC.
Collaborative and Tailored
We don’t offer an out-of-the-box Red Team service. We start every engagement by critically analysing your high-level rationale for testing, identifying and addressing your primary concerns. Our customised approach ensures the Red Team exercise evaluates your people, products, policies, EDR/MDR solutions, network infrastructure, and even physical security controls simultaneously under real-world attack conditions.
Threat-Centric and Research-Based
We take a threat-centric approach to Red Teaming. We avoid generic reliance on standard C2 frameworks, initial access and attack chains. Instead, we constantly innovate, leveraging new CVEs that may not have had time to be patched, simulating real-world threat scenarios for more accurate assessments.
Evaluate and Fortify Internal Defenses
Unlike many other red teams who rely predominantly on email-based phishing by default, JUMPSEC regularly explores new and overlooked avenues into organisations, such as advanced social engineering, productivity applications, or recently released exploits before reverting to common email-based phishing.
Reporting to Amplify Your Security
Our reports address your real-world concerns. Where necessary, JUMPSEC amplifies critical issues when more resource allocation is required, whilst mindful to clearly identify areas where existing investments have improved security. Executive-level decision makers therefore gain a balanced and realistic understanding of their security, enabling resources to be appropriately allocated to tackle the most critical security risks.
Strategic Security Partnership
JUMPSEC routinely builds trust with clients during Red Team engagements which develops into a long-term security partnership. We are acutely aware of the limited value that a single standalone report can provide, therefore we conduct follow-on debriefs, validation and advisory activities, and explorer where supporting services such as MDR and ASM could further support our partners where required.
Benefits
What are the primary long term benefits an organisation can expect for Red Teaming?
Why Choose JUMPSEC For Red Teaming Adversarial Simulation?
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What Our Clients Say...
“Recently we engaged a comprehensive purple team exercise. Working collaboratively with JUMPSEC Blue and Red Teams we were able to make real time improvements to our security posture. This included implementing technical solutions, tweaking detections and finding innovative ways to compromise a system. The advantages working in this collaborative manner through a purple team engagement, far outweigh approaches taken in a traditional PenTest."
Groupe Atlantic, UK
Resources
The Under Appreciated Value of Purple Teaming
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Butting Heads With a Threat Actor on an Engagement
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What are the characteristics of a typical Red Team exercise?
A typical ‘Red Team’ attack simulation exercise is:
- Objective-focused. Designed to prove or disprove whether an attacker can perform specific actions associated with risk events the business aims to guard against
- Threat-led. Designed to use the techniques, tactics and procedures used by advanced threat actors which are likely to target the client organisation
- Adversarial and covert. Typically a black-box, covert assessment conducted from the perspective of an external attacker without privileged information about the target
- Authentic and realistic. Designed to expose the organisation to the pressures of a real-world cyber-attack to offer an opportunity to practice and assess how they would fare in a genuine attack scenario.
What are the goals of a Red Team exercise?
JUMPSEC aims to access systems and data that real-world attackers are likely to target, with realistic attacker goals relative to the organisation’s threat profile.
JUMPSEC can simulate end-to-end attacks with a range of goals including:
- Access and exfiltrate sensitive customer data, with a view to exploit the information for financial gain (e.g. through theft of credit card information) extort the organisation under threat of GDPR sanctions, or undermine the integrity of the organisation to its customers.
- Perform a malicious action for criminal gain, such as fraudulently making a payment.
- Steal sensitive intellectual property or proprietary information that may threaten the organisation’s market competitiveness.
- Tamper with business-critical systems to impair the organisation’s ability to operate through disruption or destruction.
Why should you undertake an attack simulation?
Undertaking a Red Team exercise enables an organisation to understand its cyber risk exposure by attempting to simulate chains of attacker actions which, if executed in a real-world setting, would have a critical impact upon the business.
Red Team exercises allow you to evaluate your susceptibility to cyber-attack. They provide organisations with the answer to the following questions:
- If we were cyber-attacked, what could an attacker achieve, and what might the business impact be?
- Are our current security controls effective in preventing and detecting malicious activity on our network?
- Is our cyber risk assessment accurate and are the controls we have put in place effective in mitigating risk to the business?
Organisations with a solid security baseline who have implemented robust security controls and are confident in the efficacy of their detection capability (in terms of both tooling and personnel capability) are able to maximise the opportunity provided by Red Teaming, using it as an opportunity to stress-test and exercise their security team.
Red Teaming typically takes the path of least resistance; the shortest route from the point of breach to the end-goal. Red Team exercises are designed to answer the question of “can the attacker cause harm”, as opposed to “how can I stop an attacker from causing harm”. This means that without Red Teaming an organisation’s broader defensive controls and capabilities are unlikely to be tested, resulting in limited learning and improvement opportunities.
For this reason, Red Team exercises are especially well-suited to organisations who have already invested in developing their cybersecurity controls and capabilities. Organisations who lack an established security baseline should consider alternative approaches which are less focused on realism, and more attuned to identifying and driving capability improvements, before engaging in a hyper-realistic simulation such as a Red Team.
- If we were cyber-attacked, what could an attacker achieve, and what might the business impact be?
- Are our current security controls effective in preventing and detecting malicious activity on our network?
- Is our cyber risk assessment accurate and are the controls we have put in place effective in mitigating risk to the business?
When is Red Teaming specifically right for you?
Organisations with a solid security baseline who have implemented robust security controls and are confident in the efficacy of their detection capability (in terms of both tooling and personnel capability) are able to maximise the opportunity provided by Red Teaming, using it as an opportunity to stress-test and exercise their security team.
However, Red Teaming typically takes the path of least resistance; the shortest route from the point of breach to the end-goal. Red Team exercises are designed to answer the question of “can the attacker cause harm”, as opposed to “how can I stop an attacker from causing harm”. This means that without Red Teaming an organisation’s broader defensive controls and capabilities are unlikely to be tested, resulting in limited learning and improvement opportunities.
For this reason, Red Team exercises are especially well-suited to organisations who have already invested in developing their cybersecurity controls and capabilities. Organisations who lack an established security baseline should consider alternative approaches which are less focused on realism, and more attuned to identifying and driving capability improvements, before engaging in a hyper-realistic simulation such as a Red Team.
What does a Red Team provide you with?
A JUMPSEC attack simulation will allow you to:
- Stress-test your cyber resilience and effectiveness against advanced offensive capabilities used by real-world attackers
- Validate the returns on your security investment to-date by assessing the effectiveness of your cyber controls and capabilities to combat an authentic and realistic cyber-attack.
- Realise your risk exposure by assessing and understanding the likelihood of a successful attack.
- Demonstrate the value of security investment by communicating cyber risk in clear business terms. A JUMPSEC Red Team will highlight the actual business impact of a cyber attacker achieving technical goals.
- Enhance the cyber-readiness of your organisation by exercising your people, tuning your tooling, and optimising your processes in preparation for a genuine attack.
- Identify areas for future capability development to inform your development roadmap and guide future cybersecurity investment.