Offensive Security

Red Teaming Operations

Adversary simulation. Faltrox emulates a real, determined attacker across people, process, and technology, chaining phishing, initial access, escalation, lateral movement, and persistence against your defenses, to prove whether your team actually detects and stops an intrusion.

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Overview

What Does A Red Team Actually Test?

A pentest finds vulnerabilities; a red team answers a harder question: could a real, determined adversary achieve their goal against you? Faltrox emulates the full attack chain, people, process, and technology, to test whether your defenses actually detect and stop an intrusion.

We operate like a real threat actor, with defined objectives (domain admin, access to a crown-jewel system, exfiltration of target data) and a stealth-first, objective-driven mindset, chaining phishing, initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and persistence, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

The goal isn't a vulnerability list, it's a truth: how far can an attacker get, how fast will you notice, and how well does your team respond? We deliver an attack narrative, detection gaps, and concrete improvements to your defensive posture.

Launch A Red Team

Landscape

The Kill Chain

A red team exercises the full attack lifecycle, the way a real adversary operates end to end.

Reconnaissance

OSINT and infrastructure mapping to find the softest way in.

Initial Access

Phishing, exposed services, and valid-credential attacks to gain a foothold.

Privilege Escalation

Elevating from a foothold toward administrative and domain control.

Lateral Movement

Pivoting through the network toward the objective while staying quiet.

Persistence & Evasion

Maintaining access and evading detection like a real intruder would.

Objective & Exfil

Reaching the crown-jewel target and demonstrating impact, safely.

Methodology variants

Engagement Models

We tailor the level of stealth and collaboration to what you most need to learn.

Full-Scope Covert

RED TEAM

A covert, objective-driven simulation with minimal prior knowledge, testing whether your blue team detects and responds to a real, stealthy intrusion.

Assume Breach

ASSUMED BREACH

We start from a foothold, a compromised laptop or credential, to test how far an attacker gets once inside, without waiting on initial access. Efficient and high-signal.

Collaborative

PURPLE TEAM

Red and blue work together in real time, we attack, your defenders tune detections live, maximizing defensive improvement per engagement.

Process

Our Red Team Process

A controlled, objective-driven engagement aligned to recognized adversary-emulation frameworks.

01
OBJECTIVES
We agree the goals, rules of engagement, and crown-jewel targets with you.
02
RECON
We map your attack surface and people through OSINT and infrastructure analysis.
03
BREACH
We gain initial access via phishing, exposed services, or valid credentials.
04
ADVANCE
We escalate, move laterally, and persist toward the objective, staying stealthy.
05
DEBRIEF
We deliver the attack narrative, detection gaps, and a defensive-improvement plan.

Scope

What We Test

01critical

Human Layer

Phishing, pretexting, and social engineering against your people.

02critical

Detection & Response

Whether your SOC, EDR, and SIEM actually catch a real intrusion.

03high

Technical Controls

Network, identity, and endpoint defenses under real attacker pressure.

04high

Incident Response

How your team investigates, contains, and responds when it matters.

Outcomes

Key benefits

A red team gives you the one thing a scan never can, proof of whether your defenses actually work.

Test Defenses, Not Just Findings

A red team measures your security where it counts: can a determined adversary reach the objective, and will you notice in time? You get validated detection gaps, a real attack narrative, and proof of how your people, process, and technology hold up under genuine pressure.

Detection Reality Check

Discover exactly what your SOC and EDR miss, before a real attacker exploits it.

Blue Team Training

Your defenders get live experience responding to a realistic intrusion.

Executive Wake-Up

A demonstrated path to the crown jewels drives action better than any report.

Regulatory Alignment

Supports threat-led testing expectations like TIBER-EU and DORA.

Prioritized Hardening

Concrete, ranked improvements to detection and response, not a vuln dump.

Who we serve

Who we protect

Red teaming suits mature organizations that want to test defenses against a realistic adversary.

Financial Services

Banks and fintechs facing threat-led testing mandates and real adversaries.

Critical Enterprise

Large organizations protecting crown-jewel systems and sensitive data.

High-Value Targets

Firms whose brand or data makes them a target for sophisticated actors.

Differentiators

Why Faltrox?

Feature	Standard vendor	Faltrox Security
Methodology	Automated scanning	Manual exploit chaining with AI assist
Validation	Scanner output	Every finding reproduced by a practitioner
Business logic	Ignored	Deep inspection
Reporting	Generic PDF	Dev-ready artefacts and proofs of concept
Re-testing	Extra cost	Included

Compliance

Compliance aligned

Our red team methodology aligns to the recognized frameworks for adversary emulation and threat-led testing.

Frameworks we map to

MITRE ATT&CK
TIBER-EU
CBEST
DORA
NIST 800-115
PTES

Audit ready

Letters of attestation included.

Standardised

OWASP ASVS and NIST 800-115.

FAQ

Common questions

01How is red teaming different from a penetration test?

A pentest finds and validates as many vulnerabilities as possible in a defined scope. A red team is objective-driven and stealthy, it emulates a real adversary trying to achieve a specific goal, and tests whether your people, process, and detection actually stop them. Different questions, different value.

02What is an assumed-breach engagement?

Instead of spending time on initial access, we start from a realistic foothold, a compromised workstation or credential, and test how far an attacker gets once inside. It's efficient and high-signal, focusing effort on lateral movement, escalation, and detection.

03What is a purple team?

A collaborative model where our red team attacks while your blue team tunes detections in real time. It maximizes defensive improvement per engagement, turning each attack technique into an immediate detection and response upgrade.

04Is red teaming safe for production?

Yes. We operate under strict rules of engagement, avoid destructive actions, and coordinate to prevent business impact. Our goal is to demonstrate risk safely, not cause it, and we maintain clear communication and abort criteria throughout.

05Do we need a red team or a pentest?

If you haven't tested systematically for vulnerabilities yet, start with penetration testing. If you have a mature program and want to know whether your defenses actually detect and stop a real attacker, a red team is the right next step. We'll advise honestly.

06Which frameworks do you align to?

We map techniques to MITRE ATT&CK and align engagements to threat-led testing frameworks such as TIBER-EU, CBEST, and DORA where relevant, so the exercise satisfies both security and regulatory objectives.

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