Red team testing uses ethical hacking to identify breaches to an organisation’s security system using real-world techniques like those used for social engineering attacks.

Red teaming goes beyond a penetration test, or pen test, because it puts a team of adversaries — the red team — against an organisation’s security team — the blue team. The red team is typically made up of highly trained security professionals who understand real-world tactics for compromising environments. Organisations can use information from this simulation to correct weaknesses in their security defence and improve their security posture.

Red team testing can help your company by thoroughly analysing the strength of every security control your organization uses. Instead of relying on the theoretical capabilities of your security system, you can understand how they will hold up in practice. Red team testing doesn’t identify potential breach areas exclusively in your technology. It can identify security vulnerabilities in all of the following areas: