Vulnerability Management
IPS Red Teaming Assessment goes beyond penetration testing to evaluate your organization’s resilience against cyber attacks. We assess key areas like cloud environments, network security, endpoint devices, applications, and incident response, providing deeper insights into your overall security posture.
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What is Red Team Security Assessment?
An IPS Red Team Security Assessment simulates real-world attacks to evaluate the security of your organization, system, or network. By using adversarial tactics, our skilled security professionals identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious actors.
The IPS red team plays the role of an attacker, testing the effectiveness of your defenses and uncovering potential security gaps. Unlike traditional vulnerability scans or penetration tests, our red team assessments take a comprehensive approach, assessing vulnerabilities across people, processes, and technology.
Activities include social engineering, physical breaches, application exploits, network intrusions, and more. These thorough evaluations provide deep insights into your organization’s resilience and response to cyber attacks, helping to fortify your overall security posture.
IPS’s red team security assessment is designed to provide organizations with the highest level of assurance that their most critical assets are secure and to pinpoint areas where processes need improvement.
Unlike penetration testing, which focuses on system-specific vulnerabilities, red team testing offers a stringent assessment of security across all domains. This includes scrutinizing whether intellectual property can be stolen and ensuring that customer contact lists, personally identifiable information, and payment details are adequately secured.
Our technical experts go the extra mile to mirror the full range of techniques currently used by attackers, offering a comprehensive and realistic evaluation of your security posture.
Planning and Scooping
The red team works closely with your organization to define the objectives, scope, and rules of engagement for the assessment. They gather detailed information about the target systems, networks, and overall security posture. This collaborative phase ensures the assessment aligns with your organization's goals and focuses on the areas of highest risk.
Exploitation
The red team simulates attacks to exploit the identified vulnerabilities using various techniques, including social engineering, phishing, network attacks, and application exploits. Their goal is to gain unauthorized access, escalate privileges, and penetrate deeper into the target environment. Leveraging their expertise, the red team bypasses security controls to demonstrate the potential impact of successful attacks.
Reconnaissance
The red team conducts reconnaissance to gather information about the target organization. This may involve passive techniques like open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering, analyzing publicly available information, or actively probing the target’s infrastructure to identify potential vulnerabilities. The goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the target’s systems, network architecture, and potential entry points.
Post-exploitation
Once the red team gains initial access, they focus on expanding their presence within the target environment. They move laterally through the network, seeking access to sensitive data or critical systems. This phase assesses the organization’s ability to detect and respond to intrusions, as well as evaluating the potential extent of damage an attacker could cause if undetected.
Threat Modeling
Based on the information gathered during reconnaissance, the red team identifies and prioritizes potential attack vectors and threats. They analyze vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and weaknesses in systems, applications, or processes that could be exploited. This phase enables the red team to develop a tailored attack strategy specifically designed for the organization’s unique environment.
Reporting
After the assessment, the red team prepares a comprehensive report detailing their findings, methodologies, and recommendations. This report highlights the vulnerabilities discovered, the techniques employed, and the potential impacts. It also provides actionable recommendations to enhance the organization’s security defenses. A debriefing session is then conducted with the organization’s stakeholders to discuss the findings and ensure a clear understanding of the assessment’s outcomes.
Uncover vulnerabilities at every level and enhance your understanding of how you would respond to a real cyber attack.
Pinpoint vulnerabilities in your current processes, systems, policies, and procedures.
Conduct a thorough risk evaluation addressing electronic, social, and physical threats, elevating your cyber risk awareness and mitigation efforts.
Showcase your cyber resilience to the Board, stakeholders, customers, and regulators.
Test your organization with the latest real-world cybercrime techniques to identify weaknesses.
