Objective-Based
Focus on realistic attacker goals and the business assets that matter most.
Red teaming & cyber attack simulation
Think like an attacker.
Prove your resilience.
From focused attack scenarios to an end-to-end red team exercise, understand how an adversary could reach your critical assets and how effectively your defenders respond.
UK & Middle East • Controlled, authorised engagements
Emulate → Validate → Improve
Service overview
Two services. The right exercise for your risk.
Choose focused cyber attack simulation to validate a specific scenario, or red teaming to examine a broader adversary journey. These are separate services, each scoped around your maturity, critical assets and the questions you need answered.
Threat-Led
Shape scenarios around adversaries, campaigns and techniques relevant to your industry.
Detection-Focused
Evaluate how effectively your teams identify, investigate and contain attacker activity.
Choose your exercise scope
Focused validation or a full adversary exercise.
Agree the objective, depth, defender involvement and operational boundaries before testing begins.
Exercise scope is agreed individually. This is a human-led assessment service; automated Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) platforms are a separate offering. Any availability or DDoS testing requires a separately agreed scope and safeguards.
Assessment focus
People. Processes. Technology.
Test the whole security programme and the paths that could lead an attacker to your critical assets.
People
Employee exposure, social engineering scenarios and the response of your security team.
Processes
Escalation, investigation, incident handling and containment decisions during an exercise.
Technology
External defences, monitoring tools, access controls and internal security boundaries.
Attack Paths
How controlled initial access could lead to lateral movement and elevated privileges.
Critical Assets
Whether an adversary could reach agreed high-value systems, information or crown jewels.
Detection & Response
What is detected, what is missed and how your defenders respond to the simulated threat.
Controlled and authorised
Realistic testing.
Agreed boundaries.
Every exercise starts with defined objectives and rules of engagement. Scope, constraints and success criteria are agreed before activity begins.
Scope
Systems, people, assets and scenarios included in the exercise.
Safety
Prohibited activities and measures to manage operational risk.
Communication
Exercise contacts, escalation routes and communication protocols.
Control
Emergency procedures and the conditions for pausing activity.
Our approach
A structured path to real insight.
An illustrative end-to-end approach. The stages used and their depth depend on the exercise scope agreed with you.
- 01
Threat Intelligence & Profiling
Research relevant threat actors, campaigns and attack techniques to build the adversary profile for your exercise.
- 02
Attack Scenario Development
Define realistic objectives, constraints and success criteria around your organisation and its most valuable assets.
- 03
Rules of Engagement
Agree scope boundaries, prohibited activities, safety measures, communication protocols and emergency procedures.
- 04
Reconnaissance & OSINT
Identify exposed assets, potential entry points and publicly available organisational, employee and technical information.
- 05
Initial Access Simulation
Test agreed entry routes, such as external vulnerabilities, phishing scenarios or simulated supply chain compromise.
- 06
Perimeter Security Testing
Evaluate firewalls, VPNs, email gateways and web filtering against techniques relevant to your threat scenario.
- 07
Internal Reconnaissance & Lateral Movement
After controlled access, identify high-value targets and test internal movement while evaluating detection.
- 08
Privilege Escalation Attempts
Test whether credentials, misconfigurations or trust relationships could allow an attacker to gain higher-level access.
- 09
Controlled Persistence
Within agreed boundaries, evaluate techniques that could maintain access across system reboots or credential changes.
- 10
Crown Jewel Targeting
Attempt to reach agreed high-value systems or data to demonstrate the potential impact of the simulated attack.
- 11
Detection & Response Evaluation
Document detection events, security-team responses and containment actions to assess monitoring, incident response and threat hunting.
The outcome
Evidence to strengthen
your defences.
A clearer view of your actual resilience, the gaps exposed by the exercise and priorities for improvement.
- Visibility of the attack paths exercised and the critical assets tested.
- A record of detection events, security-team responses and containment actions.
- Insight into the effectiveness of monitoring, incident response and threat hunting.
- Practical areas to prioritise across people, processes and technology.
Take a closer look
The exercise overview,
ready to share.
Download the Cyber360 brochure for the service overview, assessment focus areas and all eleven stages of the exercise process.
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Your next step
Let’s test your resilience.
Tell us what you want to validate. We’ll help define a focused scenario or a broader red team exercise.