Answer the critical business question:
“How resilient are our people, processes, and technology when faced with a skilled attacker?”
At its core, red teaming is a controlled, intelligence-led simulation designed to emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries. Conducting a red team exercise offers significant benefits to enhance your company’s security resilience, but only if it’s planned and executed with tenacity.
Chapters in this Resource include:
- The True Value of Red Teaming
- At its core, red teaming is a controlled, intelligence-led simulation designed to emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries. Conducting a red team exercise offers significant benefits to enhance your company’s security resilience, but only if it’s planned and executed with tenacity.
- The Art of Crafting a Red Team Scenario
- A red team scenario is structured to prove or disprove the assumptions your organization holds about its security posture. To conduct red teaming successfully is to embrace it as an art form rooted in realism and collaboration.
- Compliance-Based Testing vs. Scenario-Based Testing vs. Red Teaming
- Choosing the right testing approach depends on your security stance, objectives, and regulatory obligations. Use this side-by-side comparison to determine whether compliance-based testing, scenario-based testing, or red teaming best aligns with your goals.
Criteria Compliance-Based Testing Scenario-Based Testing Red Teaming Primary Purpose Satisfy regulatory requirements; verify presence of controls. Validate specific “what if” threats and defensive functions. Assess true resilience by emulating real-world adversaries.
- Choosing the right testing approach depends on your security stance, objectives, and regulatory obligations. Use this side-by-side comparison to determine whether compliance-based testing, scenario-based testing, or red teaming best aligns with your goals.
- 7 Steps to Prepare for a Red Team Engagement
- 1 ) Assess Foundational Readiness
– Goal: Verify that your organization has strong foundational security capabilities in place …..
2 ) Secure Executive Sponsorship and Stakeholder Alignment…..
- 1 ) Assess Foundational Readiness
- Checklist: Getting Ready for Red Teaming
- This checklist distills the essentials of well-planned red team scenarios into clear, actionable steps. Use it to confirm readiness, plan intelligently, and execute safely, so your engagement delivers meaningful, business-aligned outcomes, not just a report.
