Red Team | Cycommsec

What your defense doesn't see, the Red Team does

46%

Data breaches involve customers personal data

$10B

Global Financial
Losses In 2025

277

days - Time to detect
an attack in days

554%

Increase in DDoS Attacks
Q1 2022/2021

$5M

Average cost of a breach

500k

new malware samples every day

60%

Closes their business

time to stop an attack in days

Verification of investments in security: Our Operation Red Team is the ultimate test of the effectiveness of Your multi-million dollar investments in defense systems (SIEME, EDR, SOAR). We show what works in practice and what is only a theoretical safeguard.
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Real risk to the management board: We present to the board Practical evidence of risk — we simulate a successful attack and show its real impact on the business. This is the basis of an informed decision based on brutal facts, not on audit reports.
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Testing the reaction of the team (Blue Team): We verify in practice, how quickly your team is able to detect and stop an attack.
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Business Continuity Support: Uncovering non-obvious, complex chains of attack (kill-chains) that can bypass your Business Continuity Plans (BCP). Be prepared for real scenarios, not just those outlined in the documentation.

Defense is more than technology

The graph shows an exponential increase in the complexity of attacks. Your company invests in defense systems, but their effectiveness remains unverified in the face of a creative, human adversary. The real risk is not that you have a firewall, but that you do not know if your team is able to detect and stop someone who can bypass it.

from 1k to

37k

To genuinely verify your cyber resilience, our Red Team process must include:

Targeted Attack Simulation: Accurately mimic the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of real hacking groups (APTs) to check defenses in combat conditions.
Testing People and Processes: Use of advanced social engineering and phishing techniques to verify not only systems, but above all employee awareness and the effectiveness of response procedures.
Stealth Action: The priority is to remain undetected for as long as possible in order to realistically assess the capabilities of your defense team (Blue Team) to detect and analyze subtle anomalies.
Contextual Report and Workshops: Provide a clear attack timeline and conduct workshops with the Blue Team to analyze every step, every defense missed, and every successful response.

Your IT team can be a master at maintaining systems, while having no experience tracking down a quiet, advanced intruder. This happens when there is a lack of someone who can think like an attacker. Our Red Team provides that missing perspective, showing how a seemingly secure infrastructure can be compromised by an intelligent adversary.

Statistics from

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/statistics?form_type=Basic&&...

Does your company know what its defense looks like from an attacker's perspective, or does it base its knowledge solely on system reports?

Statistics from

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/statistics?form_type=Basic&&...

How do we Turn Theory into a Real Test of Your Defense?

Our operation is not a chaotic attack; it's a methodical, multi-stage campaign that mimics the actions of real adversaries. In 7 steps, we conduct a simulation that provides invaluable insights into the true effectiveness of your systems, people, and procedures.

Collaboration with the red team

Defining Mission Objectives and Rules of the Game

We start by understanding what is most valuable to you. Is the goal to take over financial data? Encrypting a key server? We determine the “crown jewels” that our Red Team is to earn and define the rules and limitations of the operation.

Gaining Initial Access

At this stage, we move from theory to practice. We take advantage of the weakest point identified — whether through phishing, a vulnerability in a public application, or a social engineering attack — to gain the first foothold inside your organization.

Achieving the Goal and Data Exfiltration

We are proving the real impact of the attack. We reach the “crown jewels” and simulate their capture, e.g. by exfiltrating a small, harmless sample of data. This is the ultimate proof that a given path of attack is feasible.

Reconnaissance and Attack Surface Mapping

Acting like a real aggressor, we conduct passive and active reconnaissance. We identify potential entry points, technological and human weaknesses, creating a map of the most promising attack vectors, often invisible to your internal teams.

Escalation of Privileges and Lateral Movement

This is the heart of the operation. Once accessed, we act covertly to escalate permissions, take control of subsequent systems, and move across the network (lateral movement) toward a pre-defined target, trying to avoid detection by your defense team.

Detailed Reporting Attack Timeline

We transform our activities into two key reports: a strategic report for management, showing business risks, and an ultra-detailed technical report with a chronological attack timeline for your IT team and Blue Team.

Joint Workshops and a Plan to Strengthen Defense

The operation ends with a workshop (Debriefing/Purple Teaming), during which we play the attack step by step together with your defense team. We analyze what was detected, what was missed and why, creating a concrete plan to strengthen your company's real cyber resilience.

Benefits and the Red Team Cooperation Model

The success of a Red Team operation depends on a realistic simulation and close collaboration after it concludes. We provide an objective, external attacker's perspective. Your defense team (Blue Team) contributes crucial organizational knowledge. Together, once the campaign is complete, we create a complete picture of your cyber resilience.

Real Verification of Defence Effectiveness

You gain hard evidence of which of your safeguards, procedures and technologies work in practice and which fail in the face of a creative, human adversary.

Testing the Blue Team under Combat Conditions

You give your defense team a unique opportunity to train and detect a silent, advanced attack in a safe, controlled environment.

Identifying Invisible Attack Paths

We discover complex chains of attack (kill-chains) that bypass standard security and are invisible to automated scanners and classic pentests.

Strengthening Incident Response Procedures

An attack timeline analysis provides invaluable feedback that allows you to refine and strengthen your plans to respond to real threats, not just theoretical ones.

Schedule a Confidential Debriefing

Let's talk about your company's business goals and see how our Red Team operation can verify your ability to protect them.

Partnership in Defense Verification

We are not just a service provider. We become your controlled adversary who tests every element of defense. Success depends on realistic simulation and open analysis of results after its completion.