A red team is a goal-oriented adversarial engagement that simulates a real attacker to test an organization's people, processes, and technology together, including its ability to detect and respond. Rather than cataloguing every vulnerability, a red team pursues a specific objective such as accessing sensitive data. It measures resilience, not just exposure.
A pen test asks "what is vulnerable?" A red team asks "if a determined attacker targeted us, would we notice and could we stop them?" Engagements often run stealthily and may include social engineering and physical access.
The defending side is the blue team, and a purple team exercise blends both so attackers and defenders share findings in real time. Red teaming suits organizations that already have a working security program to stress-test.
traztech delivers adversarial red-team engagements with Lorikeet Security for startups and growth-stage companies, led by a published CVE researcher.
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