
Red Teaming Penetration Testing
Simulate real-world cyberattacks to uncover hidden risks across your entire organization.
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Red Teaming
With today’s ever-evolving thread landscape, sophisticated attacks can bypass conventional defenses and go unnoticed. Advanced adversaries could exploit hidden vulnerabilities and procedural gaps, eventually compromising your critical assets and sensitive data from within.
When conducting Red Team Operations, our team of experts emulates the advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world, sophisticated threat actors. These immersive assessments are impact-driven, focusing on simulating high-consequence scenarios that test your organization’s ability to detect, respond to, and recover from complex threats, including those that may be entirely new to your environment.
Our offensive security professionals employ a blend of novel and well-established adversary tactics, ensuring a realistic and evolving threat landscape. These operations are designed to challenge your security posture comprehensively, assessing not just system vulnerabilities but also the effectiveness of your people and processes against determined human adversaries. Our goal is to uncover those hidden risks and highlight potential blind spots in your defenses, empowering your team to bolster resilience and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Standard Red Team Engagement
In a standard red team assessment, our team of experts will emulate the entire lifecycle of an attack by a motivated threat actor. Utilizing a blend of techniques – social engineering, network exploitation, application attacks, with optional physical intrusion as well – our team will probe for exploitable paths to your most valuable assets, or your “keys to the kingdom”. This service will provide a holistic view of your security weaknesses and the effectiveness of your defensive capabilities in detecting and responding to a determined threat actor.
Key benefits
Realistic Attack Simulation: Understand tactics that a legitimate threat actor would use.
Identify Complex Attack Paths: Uncover vulnerabilities that isolated testing may miss.
Test Detection & Response: Evaluate your defensive team’s ability to identify, contain, and respond to threats.
Comprehensive Reporting: Receive practical insights and strategic recommendations to enhance your security. Our team of experts will include detection advice for the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures utilized during the assessment.
Best Suited For: Organizations with established security programs looking to rigorously test their overall defensive capabilities against sophisticated, multi-faceted attacks.
Assumed Breach Assessment
In an assumed breach assessment, our team will begin with the premise that an attacker has already gained initial access to a specific system or compromised a user’s account. This approach bypasses the initial perimeter breach phase and focuses on an attacker’s lateral movement, privilege escalation, data exfiltration capabilities, and the effectiveness of your internal security controls and incident response processes once a compromise has been identified.
Key Benefits:
Initial Access Simulation: Evaluate your network segmentation, access controls, and internal monitoring capabilities.
Defense-in-depth testing: Rigorously test the effectiveness of your layered security controls such as network segmentation, access controls, and monitoring when an attacker is already present.
Incident Response Readiness: Measure and enhance your team’s practical ability to detect, respond to, and remediate active threats operating inside your perimeter.
Best Suited For: Organization’s looking to validate their defense-in-depth strategies, test the strength of internal security measures, and assess their true resilience if a perimeter breach occurs.
Purple Team Assessment
A purple team exercise is a live, collaborative workshop. Our attacking team and your defensive team join forces, working transparently. As our Red Team demonstrates specific attack techniques, your defensive team works to detect and respond in real-time. This open collaboration provides immediate feedback, accelerating learning, and allowing for on-the-spot tuning of detection signatures, security tool configuration, and incident response plans.
Key Benefits
Sharpened Detection Skills: Dramatically improve your team’s ability to spot specific behaviors.
Direct Knowledge Transfer: Your defenders learn directly from seasoned offensive security professionals.
Optimized Security Stack: Fine-tune your SIEM, EDR, and other tools for peak performance.
Empowered Blue Team: Provide practical, hands-on experience that builds your team’s capabilities and confidence.
Measure Improvement: Track progress in reducing detection and response times.
Best Suited For: Organization’s focused on maximizing the value of their security investments and empowering their internal security operations teams through intensive, collaborative training and direct feedback.
Discover your vulnerabilities before an attacker does.
We believe your company’s work is far too valuable to lose everything in a cyber-attack. You deserve a partner who will help you face today’s advanced and persistent threats.
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Become unstoppable in your security goals.
Stop reacting – gain full visibility of your organization’s weak spots and secure them before an attacker takes advantage of your organization’s hard work. That work deserves to be realistically tested by an advanced expert and protected with confidence. With KirkpatrickPrice, stop feeling vulnerable and choose to become fortress, unstoppable in your business goals.
Here’s how to get started:

Make an attack plan.
Partner with an expert to get a custom game plan on what you should test and how to execute your attack simulation. Our penetration testers begin by gaining initial knowledge of your attack surface and infrastructure assets, which reveals a clear path for the engagement.

Test your Security.
Experience how your security defenses respond during a simulated cyber attack by an advanced ethical hacker. Our penetration testers will use their expertise and intuition to assess your attack surface and discover any vulnerabilities within your security stance.

Fortify your defenses.
After the exploit, our professional writing team will deliver a report that gives insight into any vulnerabilities discovered and expert guidance on how to remediate them. After remediation, our team will retest to assure that you’ve fortified your defenses and attack surface.
Why KirkpatrickPrice?

Seasoned Operators:
Our Red Team comprises highly skilled and certified ethical hackers with extensive experience emulating diverse threat actors across various industries.

Tailored Engagements:
We don’t do “one-size-fits-all” testing. Every engagement is designed around your unique environment, industry, and security goals.

Practical, Actionable Results:
We will provide clear, concise reports with actionable recommendations.

Focused on Real Improvement:
Our mission is to empower your security team, strengthen your defenses and response capabilities through actionable feedback.

True Collaboration:
We will work closely with your teams, ensuring they gain valuable knowledge and insights that last.
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FAQs
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What is Red Teaming?
Red Teaming is a full-scope, adversary emulation exercise where security professionals simulate real-world cyberattacks to test an organization’s detection, response, and resilience capabilities.
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How is Red Teaming different from Penetration Testing?
Red Teaming is goal-oriented and simulates a real-world adversary with specific objectives, such as accessing sensitive billing information or compromising customer data. Unlike penetration testing, which focuses on identifying and exploiting technical vulnerabilities in a scoped environment, Red Teaming evaluates your organization’s overall ability to detect, respond to, and recover from a targeted, stealthy attack—testing not just systems, but also people and processes.
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What does a Red Team typically involve?
It includes reconnaissance, social engineering, physical security testing (if applicable), lateral movement, and privilege escalation — all tailored to simulate realistic threats to your unique environment.
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How long does a Red Team engagement take?
The duration of a Red Team operation can vary significantly based on the scope, complexity of the environment, and the specific goals of the engagement. These exercises are designed to be adaptive and realistic, often taking place over an extended period to simulate persistent threat actors and ensure meaningful insights.
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Will my operations be disrupted during a Red Team exercise?
No. Red Team operations are designed to be stealthy and non-disruptive. We coordinate closely with stakeholders to ensure business continuity is maintained.
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What do I receive after the Red Team engagement?
You’ll receive a comprehensive report detailing:
- A detailed narrative of the simulated attack, including tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used
- Identified vulnerabilities and exploited weaknesses
- Timeline of adversary actions and paths taken
- Analysis of your organization’s detection and response performance
- Specific detection recommendations to improve visibility and threat identification
- Tactical and strategic remediation guidance
- An executive summary tailored for leadership and stakeholders
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How much does a red team test cost?
Pricing for a red team test depends on scoping factors, including business applications, technology platforms, physical locations, and other environment aspects. Pricing will coincide with the amount of time needed for the engagement, as well as how many experts are needed to complete it.
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What is the red team testing process?
During red team testing, our experts gain initial knowledge by researching an organization’s infrastructure assets. They follow a methodology derived from various sources, including the OSSTMM, Information Systems Audit Standards, CERT/CC, the SANS Institute, NIST, and OWASP. After interpreting the results, they will use manual techniques, human intuition, and years of experience to attack the vulnerabilities found. After the exploitation, our professional writing team will send you a comprehensive report with a narrative explaining the testing techniques, vulnerabilities exposed, and guidance for remediation action steps.
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How often does a red team test need to be performed?
For various auditing frameworks the time frames range from every six months to a year. As cybersecurity experts, we know that security is cyclical and suggest a continuous testing approach to testing. Depending on an organization’s level of security maturity, red team test recurrence could vary.