Red Teaming Services
Red Teaming Services
Simulated Adversary Operations to Find What Tests Miss
A red team engagement is not a penetration test — it is a full-scope simulation of a targeted adversary campaign against your organisation. Where penetration tests focus on identifying all vulnerabilities, red team operations focus on achieving specific objectives — access to crown jewels, data exfiltration, business process compromise — testing your people, processes, and technology simultaneously.
Overview
Red Teaming Services: Technical Depth Meets Legal Oversight
Red team operations reveal something penetration tests cannot: how your organisation responds to a real attack. Your detection capabilities, your incident response procedures, your employee security awareness — all are tested simultaneously in a realistic adversary simulation.
SIRI Law LLP’s red team operations are scoped around your specific threat model — the adversaries most likely to target your sector, the assets most valuable to protect, and the attack paths most likely to succeed. All activities are conducted under a legally binding rules-of-engagement agreement.
We offer a range of red team service options — from targeted crown jewels assessments to full-scope APT simulations conducted over weeks or months — tailored to your risk appetite, budget, and maturity.
Next-Generation Adversary Simulation
Modern adversaries increasingly use AI — for spear phishing at scale, AI-generated malware, and automated vulnerability discovery. Our red team engagements incorporate AI-augmented attack techniques to simulate the capabilities of modern, well-resourced threat actors.
We also offer AI system red teaming — specifically targeting AI-powered products, AI decision systems, and LLM-integrated applications as part of a broader red team scope.
Services Offered
What We Handle
- Full red team — multi-vector, objective-based adversary campaign
- Assumed breach — lateral movement and escalation from specified initial access
- Purple team — collaborative red/blue exercise with detection capability development
- Threat intelligence-led red teaming (TLPT/TIBER-IN aligned framework)
- APT simulation — sector-specific threat actor TTP replication
- Crown jewels assessment — targeted attack on critical assets
- Detection and response capability assessment
- Physical red team — premises intrusion and physical security assessment
- Supply chain attack simulation — third-party and vendor attack paths
- AI system red teaming — LLM, ML model, and AI pipeline targeting
- Executive targeting simulation — CEO fraud, deepfake-assisted attacks
- Zero-day simulation — assuming access via an undisclosed vulnerability
Client Benefits
Why Clients Choose SIRI Law LLP
Realistic Threat Modelling
Engagements are designed around your specific sector threat landscape — financial services, healthcare, technology, manufacturing — with TTPs drawn from real threat intelligence.
Legal Coverage
All red team activities are conducted under a comprehensive rules-of-engagement agreement — protecting both client and our team from legal exposure and ensuring clear scope boundaries.
Detection Feedback
We provide detailed detection feedback — documenting which phases of the engagement were detected, by what controls, and with what response — giving your SOC team actionable improvement data.
Purple Team Follow-Through
Red team engagements can be followed immediately by a purple team phase — working directly with your blue team to improve detections based on what we found.
Executive Reporting
Executive-level narrative of the engagement — written for board and risk committee audiences — alongside the full technical report.
Representative Matters
Typical Engagements
All matters described generically to protect client confidentiality.
Full Red Team – Financial Services
Conducted a 6-week full red team engagement against a financial services firm — achieving access to core banking systems through a combination of spear phishing, credential theft, and Active Directory exploitation. Detection occurred on day 23 of the engagement.
APT Simulation – Healthcare
Simulated a healthcare-sector APT group’s TTPs against a hospital group — achieving access to clinical systems and patient records through a supply chain attack via a compromised third-party remote access tool.
Crown Jewels Assessment – Technology
Targeted assessment against a technology company’s source code repositories and customer data — demonstrating access via a combination of exposed credentials in public GitHub repositories and a misconfigured CI/CD pipeline.
AI System Red Team
Conducted an AI system red team against an enterprise AI platform — demonstrating how prompt injection in user-supplied content could be used to exfiltrate other users’ data from the shared RAG context.
What to Expect
Client Outcomes
Objective Completion Report
Did we achieve the objective? What was the attack path? What controls failed and what (if anything) detected us? The fundamental red team deliverable in executive-readable narrative form.
Full Technical Report
Complete technical narrative of the engagement — every tool used, every technique attempted, every finding — for your security engineering and SOC teams.
Detection & Response Analysis
Assessment of your detection and response capability — what your SIEM detected, how your SOC responded, what was missed, and specific recommendations for improvement.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is a red team engagement different from a penetration test?
A penetration test is a structured assessment of all identified vulnerabilities within a defined scope — comprehensive coverage is the goal. A red team engagement simulates a targeted adversary with specific objectives — realistic impact demonstration is the goal. Red team engagements are typically longer, involve more restricted knowledge, and test your detection and response capability alongside your prevention controls. Both are valuable; red teaming is most valuable for mature organisations that have completed penetration testing and want to test their real-world resilience.
How do you decide the scope of a red team engagement?
We begin with a threat modelling workshop — identifying your most valuable assets (crown jewels), the adversaries most likely to target your organisation (based on sector, size, and public profile), and the attack paths most relevant to your environment. This drives the engagement objectives, duration, and attack vector selection. All activities are then agreed in a detailed rules-of-engagement document before the engagement begins.
Should the blue team know a red team is happening?
This depends on your objectives. A blind engagement (blue team unaware) tests real detection and response capability accurately but may cause unnecessary alarm if the blue team detects activity without context. A semi-informed engagement (executive leadership aware, SOC unaware) balances realism with operational management. We advise on the appropriate model based on your maturity and objectives.
Ready to Strengthen Your Security Posture?
We begin every engagement with a scoping call — no commitment required.