Red Teaming
Targeted breaches are rising, but most security programs are only tested in controlled conditions. As a trusted Penetration Testing Company, Packetlabs’ covert Red Teaming service puts your defenses through the same stealth tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by advanced ransomware crews and nation-state actors, across on-prem, cloud, and SaaS footprints. You’ll see if attackers can slip past controls, how far they could go, and how long they would remain undetected.
Your three‑step path to breach‑proof confidence:
Define the Objectives: Define the data, systems, or operations an adversary would prize the most, your company's "crown jewels."
Simulate a Real Attacker: Our operators stay covert, bypassing AV/EDR, chaining identity flaws, and maintaining persistence while pursuing the mission objectives.
Expose, Debrief, and Fortify: Receive an evidence‑rich narrative of attack paths, minute‑by‑minute dwell‑time metrics, and a prioritized remediation roadmap to strengthen your blue team's detection and response capabilities.
Stop guessing how you’d fare against a live adversary.
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Your three‑step path to breach‑proof confidence:
Define the Objectives: Define the data, systems, or operations an adversary would prize the most, your company's "crown jewels."
Simulate a Real Attacker: Our operators stay covert, bypassing AV/EDR, chaining identity flaws, and maintaining persistence while pursuing the mission objectives.
Expose, Debrief, and Fortify: Receive an evidence‑rich narrative of attack paths, minute‑by‑minute dwell‑time metrics, and a prioritized remediation roadmap to strengthen your blue team's detection and response capabilities.
Stop guessing how you’d fare against a live adversary.
Service Highlights
Tailored Scenarios. Full Lifecycle Testing.
Every engagement reflects your unique environment and threat profile. We design and execute realistic attack scenarios that replicate the complete adversary lifecycle, from foothold to privilege escalation to mission objectives, without disrupting operations. Why it matters: Standardized testing can’t demonstrate how a determined attacker would target your organization. Our production-safe approach, combined with expert-led, purpose-built, full-cycle simulations, reveals exploitable gaps beyond compliance and validates your readiness for even the most serious breach attempts.
The Packetlabs Difference
Reduce Dwell-time
The real value of a red‑team exercise isn’t the breach—it’s the lessons that follow. In our Post‑Mortem Debrief, Packetlabs sits down with your blue team to replay the attack minute‑by‑minute, highlighting every detection opportunity that slipped past the SIEM or SOC analyst. For each gap we map the root cause, recommend the improvements required to close it, and prioritize fixes by dwell‑time reduction and business impact.
See the Whole Battlefield
Modern attacks don’t respect borders, and neither do we. Our red team connects the dots across on‑prem, hybrid, and cloud estates, chaining trust relationships and identity flaws into a single breach path that shows leadership how one misstep anywhere can threaten everything.
Defence in Depth
For over 12 years, Packetlabs has guided security leaders across North America to victory against real-world breaches. Acting like the adversary, our experts go beyond the initial target pivoting through every in-scope system to stress-test your detection layers so you can see exactly how your “defense in depth” holds up. The result: not a single client has ever been compromised by a vulnerability we missed, giving you board-ready proof that your organization is well defended.
Beyond Automated Testing
While automated scanners scrape the surface, Packetlabs’ expert-led penetration tests probe the logic, business workflows, and chained exploits that scanners routinely overlook. Leveraging manual exploitation techniques, threat-intel-driven scenarios, and creative lateral thinking, our team exposes high-impact vulnerabilities competitors miss and translates them into clear, fix-ready guidance. The result is a much higher assurance level than conventional "smash-and-grab" pentests that help you sleep better at night.
Why Conduct Red Teaming?
Validate Capabilities
Many teams purchase technologies and prepare for incidents; however, it is critical to validate effectiveness using a customized approach based on your unique objectives, challenges, and maturity level
Educate Teams
Exercise blue teams to identify gaps, improve coverage within those gaps, and educate organizational teams on what to do if a real-world scenario occurs at any point within the cyber kill chain
Improve Detection
Discover coverage gaps, determine potential impact, and gain actionable information that proves ROI and justifies budgets
Test Security Posture
Emulate realistic attack scenarios using OSINT and threat intelligence
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Red Teaming Methodology
Packetlabs' security testing methodology is based on industry standards and is primarily aligned with the MITRE ATT@CK for Enterprise framework to ensure that real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures are conducted against an organization in order to test the organization’s security posture.
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