Carrying a full-scope assessment, Red Teaming vigorously checks the overall IT security of a company through planned multi-layered attacks. Also known as ethical hacking, the process verifies a company’s plans, policies, biases, and assumptions to understand how capable the system is against real-time threats.
For Red teaming assessment, experts mimic the attackers to enter the system already under the tight security of the organizations. This enables businesses to test how faster they can act in case of actual attacks.
Designed to help organizations that continuously handle sensitive assets, the assessment process provides comprehensive testing. The process demonstrates how the most capable firewalls fail to protect businesses if they fail to improve their process, people along with technology.
What’s even scarier is that the vulnerabilities that might seem unimportant to address at times, can become a huge aid for attackers when combined.
Yes, Penetration testing is just a slice of what Red Teaming involves. Involving a broader objective, the Red teaming operations are vast and much more thorough when compared to penetration testing.
Penetration testing typically aims at getting access to a company’s network. On the other hand, Red Teaming processes involve defensive strategies along with the in-depth risk analysis to verify the overall system and are not limited to applications.
Applying the real-world adversary approach, Masterstone targets the client’s system up for testing. However, before proceeding with the assessment, we define the scope of the overall process. This helps us finalize the rules, methods, and priorities, along with exceptions that won’t be covered.
Once the basic understanding of the Red Teaming is set between the client and our experts, we follow the below methodology:
To complete the assessment with success, our team needs all the related information about the client’s system including technology, people, surrounding and more.
– Company employees’ personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, etc.
– hosting provider details
– IP range associated with the external network
– Details pertaining to the services or open ports
– Credentials breaches in the past, if any
– Information related to the embedded systems or IoTs involved
– Cloud-based or web applications
After gaining information about the overall system, the Red Team plans the attack strategies. This involves finalizing the types of cyberattacks and their execution approach.
– Plan the threat modelling
– Prepare a first-hand plan pertaining to the attack
– identify the reasons and pretexts and come up with alternative cyberattack plans
– Check weak links, cloud misconfigurations and more
– Craft attacks
As the name suggests, the team works rigorously to achieve the goals set in the initial phase. The security breaches are done through:
– Security issues mapped beforehand
– Attacking systems in use to create applications and services
– Server access
– Target the application on the client-side
– Create threats against employees and people
– Final Reporting
This is where we put in words the entire effort done throughout the assessment and our inferences. We include the outcomes from our assessment in the report which also includes the cyberattacks performed and their impact.
Using this report, we can further help companies to construct remedial actions. And cover the security gaps that may lead to problems in the future.