Assumed breach
We begin with a single compromised workstation, the way most real intrusions start.
- Fastest path to useful results
- Focuses on lateral movement
- Great first red team engagement
A red team engagement is goal-driven. We pick a crown-jewel target with your leadership, then spend weeks trying to reach it across people, process and technology, exactly as a real adversary would - for organizations in the United States, the UK, Canada and the Gulf.
A penetration test asks "what is vulnerable here?". A red team asks "can someone reach our most valuable data, and would we notice?". The scope is the goal, not a list of systems.
We stay quiet, we take our time, and we chain small oversights into a full compromise. Only a handful of people in your organisation know the test is happening, which is what makes the result honest.
Red teaming works best when the scenario matches a threat you actually face.
We begin with a single compromised workstation, the way most real intrusions start.
We begin with no access at all and work our way in through any agreed channel.
Our attackers work openly with your defenders to build and tune detections live.
With your leadership we define the crown jewels, the boundaries, and the small group who will know.
We build a picture of your people, technology and exposure from the outside, quietly.
We attempt entry through the agreed channels, from phishing to exposed services.
Once inside, we escalate privileges and move toward the objective while staying under the radar.
We replay the entire operation with your defenders, step by step, with timestamps.
Reports your board and your engineers can both use. No 400-page scanner dump.
Tell us about your systems and we will recommend the right assessment, with a clear scope and a fixed price.
Testing is remote work by nature. We scope on a call, test under a signed agreement and rules of engagement, and report inside your working hours - our day overlaps with the US morning. What changes from country to country is not the testing. It is the clause your report has to satisfy, and whether we are allowed to do the work at all, which we will tell you before you ask.
Where most of this work is bought, and where most of our enquiries now come from. Three things drive it. SOC 2 Type II: the criteria do not name a penetration test, but it sits in the points of focus under CC4.1 and auditors expect one inside the observation window. PCI DSS v4.0.1: 11.4.3 external and 11.4.2 internal testing at least annually, 11.4.6 every six months for service providers - and the tester does not have to be a QSA. The FTC Safeguards Rule: 16 CFR 314.4(d)(2)(i) requires annual penetration testing of any non-bank financial institution without continuous monitoring.
If you hold a NYDFS licence, 23 NYCRR 500.05(a) is explicit: penetration testing from inside and outside your system boundaries, by a qualified internal or external party, at least annually. The Second Amendment finished phasing in on 1 November 2025. California’s CCPA cybersecurity audit regulations took effect on 1 January 2026 and list penetration testing among the things the auditor assesses.
English-speaking, used to buying testing from outside their own borders, and driven by the same two things: ISO 27001 certification and the security questionnaire an enterprise customer sends before signing. We take private-sector work in all three. We do not take UK public sector or critical national infrastructure work, which is gated behind NCSC CHECK.
Where we started, and still a real part of the business. Abu Dhabi healthcare works to ADHICS V2 (yearly). Saudi entities under the NCA’s ECC 2:2024 test periodically, or six-monthly for critical systems. SAMA requires annual testing of customer and internet-facing services. UAE licensed financial institutions came under the Central Bank’s C 1/2026 on 14 September 2026. Our office and our academy are in Karachi.
We are a Pakistani company. Some US work is closed to a firm like ours, and you should hear that from us rather than from your own legal team three weeks in.
Everything else is paperwork, and we keep it ready rather than assembling it after you ask: a mutual NDA, a W-8BEN-E, the testers’ names and certification numbers, a redacted sample report, and a data-handling note saying what we hold and when it is destroyed.
Not sure which of these applies to you? The compliance and audit page sets out what each framework actually asks for, side by side.
A pentest finds as many vulnerabilities as possible in a defined system. A red team picks one valuable objective and tests whether anyone can reach it, and whether you would notice. Most organizations should run pentests first.
Usually three to five people: the sponsor, a security lead and an emergency contact. Keeping the circle small is what makes the detection results meaningful.
Yes. Everything runs under signed rules of engagement with an agreed stop process, and we avoid destructive actions entirely. Your emergency contact can pause the operation at any moment.
If you have never had a penetration test, start there. Red teaming pays off once you already have basic patching, monitoring and response in place.
A penetration test asks how many ways in there are. A red team operation asks whether anyone notices. We pick one objective, stay quiet, and the measure of success is your detection and response, not the length of the finding list.
We run full-scope, objective-based operations and produce the evidence and debrief such programs expect. Some regulators also require the testing provider itself to hold a specific national accreditation; where that applies to you, check the requirement before you appoint anyone, including us.
Longer than a penetration test, because the point is to move slowly enough not to be seen. Scope, objectives and duration are agreed with your leadership before anything starts, and a small group inside your organization always knows the operation is running.
Tell us what you need tested. Our team will reply with a clear scope and quote.
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