Red Team Assessments

Simulate targeted attacks to test how well your people, processes, and technologies detect and respond to real-world threats.

Test Your Defenses with Real-World Attack Simulations

  • Simulate Advanced Adversaries

    Test your defenses against real-world attacker tactics like lateral movement, evasion, and privilege escalation.

  • Assess Incident Response

    Evaluate your team's ability to detect, respond, and contain threats under pressure in real-time.

  • Identify Weak Points

    Reveal gaps in controls, monitoring, alerting, and people-processes through targeted attacks.

Red team assessments go beyond traditional penetration testing by emulating advanced persistent threats (APTs) to evaluate your organization's detection and response capabilities under realistic attack conditions.

Unlike scoped penetration tests, red teaming maps full attack chains, from initial breach to domain dominance, helping you understand your environment's true resilience and how quickly threats can escalate.

We offer scenarios including assumed breach, phishing campaigns, perimeter testing, and custom exercises tailored to your organization's structure, tools, and concerns. Reports highlight exploited paths, missed detections, and actionable improvements.

Assessment Benefits

  • Emulates advanced adversaries to reveal attack paths real threat actors could exploit.
  • Tests your organization's ability to detect, investigate, and contain targeted attacks.
  • Covers the full kill chain from initial breach through lateral movement and privilege escalation.
  • Identifies control gaps, blind spots, and weaknesses traditional tests miss.
  • Delivers prioritized remediation steps aligned to your security goals.

Ready for a Real-World Security Test?

Let Vilkas simulate the tactics of sophisticated attackers and help you strengthen detection and response across your organization.

Red Team Assessment — FAQ

What to expect from objectives, timelines, safety, and outcomes.

How is a red team different from a penetration test?▾
A penetration test focuses on finding and exploiting technical vulnerabilities in a defined scope. A red team simulates a motivated adversary pursuing a goal (e.g., data theft or domain dominance) across people, process, and technology. Testing is evasive and often uses social engineering and other tactics to test detection and response.
What is an assumed-breach vs. full-scope red team?▾
Full-scope starts from the outside (OSINT, phishing, perimeter paths). Assumed-breach begins with a limited internal foothold to focus on detection engineering, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and egress controls. We recommend the model that best aligns to your objectives and maturity.
Will a red team disrupt production systems?▾
We design operations to avoid disruption: safe payloads, throttled activity, maintenance windows for higher-risk steps, and continuous communication with a control group. Riskier actions are excluded or simulated with proofs of feasibility.
How long does a typical red team take?▾
Common timelines range from 4–8 weeks depending on objective complexity, detection maturity, and environment size. We plan phases (recon, initial access, post-exploitation, objective pursuit, and reporting) during scoping.
Can our blue team know it’s happening?▾
You choose: covert (test true detection/response) or overt/purple-team style (collaborative, repeatable reps to harden detections). Many clients do a covert exercise first, then a collaborative iteration for rapid improvement.
What deliverables do we receive?▾
An executive brief of objectives and outcomes, a narrative kill chain with evidence, detailed detection/response gaps, and prioritized remediation guidance. We also conduct a live debrief and include post-remediation validation.
Do you include social engineering?▾
Yes, if in scope. We can run phishing/vishing/pretexting and physical simulations with strict rules of engagement and approvals to validate human-layer controls safely.