Red Teaming

Find out if you'd actually catch a real attacker

A penetration test asks "can we find a hole?" Red teaming asks a harder question: "would your team notice if someone were already inside?" We simulate a real, motivated attacker from start to finish.

Most breaches go undetected for months

Compliance tells you you're covered. Red teaming tells you the truth.

You can pass every audit and still miss a real intrusion for weeks. Compliance checks whether controls exist on paper. Red teaming checks whether those controls actually work under pressure, against a patient and creative adversary.

We don’t tell you in advance what we're going to try. We pick a realistic goal — access to sensitive data, control of a critical system — and go after it the way a real attacker would, then show you exactly where your defenses held and where they didn't.

Red team adversary simulation exercise

Choose the level of simulation that fits your goal

Every engagement is scoped around a specific objective, not a generic checklist.

Full red team engagement

A complete, goal-based simulation from first foothold to objective achievement. We pick a realistic target — financial data, source code, customer records — and pursue it using the same patience and creativity a real attacker would.

  • Defined objective agreed with your leadership in advance
  • Multi-stage attack execution over days or weeks, not hours
  • Full timeline reconstruction showing every step taken
  • Executive debrief that leadership can actually act on
Goal-basedMulti-stage

Assumed breach simulation

We start from the assumption that an attacker already has a foothold — a stolen credential or a compromised laptop — and test how far they could get from there, and how quickly your team would notice.

  • Simulated starting point inside your network or systems
  • Lateral movement and privilege escalation testing
  • Detection and response time measurement
  • Useful when you want to skip straight to "what if they're already in"
Lateral movementDetection testing

Social engineering

Your employees are usually the easiest way in. We run realistic phishing and pretexting campaigns against your team, then turn the results into targeted, useful training — not a blame exercise.

  • Custom-crafted phishing campaigns based on your industry
  • Phone-based social engineering attempts
  • Click-through and credential submission reporting
  • Follow-up awareness session based on what actually happened
PhishingHuman risk

Purple team exercise

Instead of attacking in secret and revealing everything at the end, we work live alongside your security team — attacking, explaining what we did, and helping them build the detection rules to catch it next time.

  • Collaborative, live exercise — not a secret engagement
  • Real-time detection rule building with your team
  • Coverage scoring across common attack techniques
  • Best fit for teams that already have some monitoring in place
Builds your team's skills
The Faustianloop difference

We don't just attack — we help you fix the program, not just the bug

A red team report from most firms ends with a list of things that went wrong. Because we also build security programs and compliance frameworks, our debrief tells you exactly which policy, control, or training gap allowed each step to succeed — and what to change so it doesn't happen again.

Know how you'd really hold up?

Let's scope a red team exercise built around a goal that actually matters to your business.

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