Security Testing and Assurance
Red Teaming
Simulate real-world cyber threats and gain insight into the effectiveness of your organisations incident detection and response capabilities.
Strengthen your defences with Red Teaming
Test your defence
Stress-test your defences, exposing hidden security weaknesses before attackers do.
Unified approach to security
Improve communication and collaboration amongst your own teams and foster a unified approach to security
Controlled environment
Safe and controlled red team exercises sharpen your blue team’s detection, response, and containment skills.
Improve awareness
Showcase the impact of cyber threats, increasing security awareness across your organisation.
What is Red Teaming?
Red Team exercises simulate real-world cyber-attacks on your organisation. These simulations are built on the latest threat intelligence, mimicking the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by known adversaries to identify and exploit any gaps in your defences.
Red Teaming is ideal for organisations with a mature security posture and regular Red Teaming exercises further enhance your preparedness to face determined cyber threat actors.
We work closely with our CyberCX Intelligence unit. Their insights and contribution include threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedure (TTPs), threat trends for your geography, sector and organisation, and are included as part of every red team engagement. Our techniques and custom tools are informed by cyber adversaries, meaning we emulate real-world TTPS that matter most to your organisation.
Our Red team exercises include reconnaissance activities, system exploitation, network propagation, critical business systems interaction, and exfiltration of corporate and other sensitive information. These activities demonstrate the real-world impact and cost of a targeted cyber-attack against defined business and technical objectives. This simulated attack puts your Blue team under pressure, forcing them to effectively detect, respond to and contain the situation.
Red Teaming is a safe and controlled environment for your Blue team to learn, adapt, and strengthen their response capabilities.
Red Teaming methodology
A Red Team operation is a highly sophisticated exercise, providing you with confidence in your capability to detect and respond to real life adversaries. Testing covers a range of scenarios and employs an array of methodologies designed to assess the protection of your key digital assets. Red Team engagements follow our customised and refined phased methodology.
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Trusted cyber security partner to leading Australian organisations.
Why CyberCX for Red Teaming?
When it comes to strengthening your organisation’s security, our elite Adversary Simulation Group offer unmatched value and effectiveness. Our highly skilled team brings over 50 years of combined red teaming experience to every engagement, having successfully conducted a significant amount of red team exercises annually across diverse sectors which include retail, finance, and critical infrastructure.
Notably, we have worked with half of the ASX Top 20 organisations in the past 24 months, demonstrating our ability to handle complex, high-stakes environments.
Our stellar reputation for executing high-quality CORIE (Cyber Operational Resilience Intelligence-led Exercises) engagements in collaboration with the CFR CORIE team, led by the Reserve Bank of Australia, showcases our capability to meet the most stringent regulatory requirements.
Our team dedicates significant time to research, capability development, and skills enhancement, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats. By leveraging both custom in-house tools and industry-leading capabilities, we provide a comprehensive and realistic assessment of your security posture.
Additionally, our collaborative approach with other industry-leading teams within CyberCX, including Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), Managed Security Services (MSS), and Cyber Threat Intelligence, ensures that our exercises are thorough and aligned with real-world threats.
Whether you need a red team exercise to test your defences or a purple team engagement to foster collaboration between your offensive and defensive teams, we customise our approach to meet your specific needs and objectives.
By choosing our red and purple team exercises, you’re not just getting a security assessment, you’re gaining a strategic partner committed to elevating your organisation’s cyber resilience.
Case Study: Large Australian Financial Institution
CyberCX was engaged to perform red teaming activities against a large financial institution to assess their capability to respond and defend against tactics, techniques, and procedures a real-life threat actor may utilise when targeting their organisation. The engagement uncovered numerous weaknesses in the business that ultimately led to scenarios such as access to sensitive information and the ability to perform financial transfers.
Although policy and controls were considered quite mature, CyberCX were able to gain initial access to sensitive systems via a highly targeted phishing exercise combined with issues in the organisations multi-factor authentication deployment. Utilising stolen credentials and leveraging a flaw to obtain a temporary multi-factor authentication access code, our consultants were able to gain access to the internal environment and establish persistent access.
Evading implemented defence capabilities, CyberCX were able to escalate their access and exfiltrate large amounts of sensitive data and information.
As a result of this exercise, the exercise sponsor gained additional funding to expand their detection and response capabilities and clear direction on areas where mitigations could be improved. CyberCX has continued to work closely with this client and has been pleased to see their detection and response capabilities mature to a point where they have become a formidable opposition in recent exercises and to ongoing cyber threats.
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