How does Red Team Assessment Work?

As we work on the security systems, we must constantly ensure that our cyber-related defenses and security are functioning correctly and that the experts testing the system’s vulnerabilities and security status are alert. Furthermore, we can honestly state that the core staff of Red Team Assessment Services in Singapore, which mainly depends on well-defined tactics, methods, and procedures (TTPs), is our highly skilled group of penetration testers with years of proven experience.

Additionally, the following describes the well-known process used by our extremely skilled Red Team Assessment Service team members:

• Step 1: Preparation,
• Step 2: Threat Intelligence & Attack Planning,
• Step 3: Attack Execution,
• Step 4: Result Analysis & Reporting,
• Step 5: Lessons-Learned Workshop,

To help you appreciate the significance of the Red Team Assessment, we will now go into more detail about each of the aforementioned phases in the sections that follow.

Step 1:  Preparation

This phase conceptualizes the fundamental work organization of the Red Team Assessment Services, where team members divide their tasks and responsibilities throughout the full process of searching for vulnerabilities in the relevant IT infrastructure.  At this stage, they adjust their approach to the current demands of the clients and the extent of the actions that will be carried out later as planned.  In this stage, they also determine the time frame, the legal limits they must adhere to, and the forbidden behaviors they are not allowed to engage in during the procedure.

The “Rules of Engagement” are a document that compiles this entire procedure.

Step 2:  Threat Intelligence & Attack Planning

Testing can start with the threat intelligence and attack preparation stage after the Rules of Engagement have been put together. These threat intelligence scenarios, which are essential to the success of testing operations, might be referred to as the working model of actual cyber threats. Additionally, the Red Team uses its own developed strategies and techniques to prepare the attack strategy.

Step 3:  Attack Execution

Here, Craw Security offers its complete Red Team Assessment Service in Singapore using a workable implementation strategy made up of the three essential steps listed below to complete an engagement:

Get In

To get access to the network, the red team must first have actual access to their objectives.

Stay In

In order to survive the duration of the battle, the red team must establish continuity in this situation.

Act

This last step involves the red team carrying out certain suggested actions (also known as operational impacts) that were jointly agreed upon by the client during the planning stage and formally signed by the client in the “Rules of Engagement” document.  Furthermore, the so-called operations intended to highlight a weakness or vulnerability might be referred to as operational impacts.

Each phase is decomposed here into the further subsets of sub-phases shown below:

Reconnaissance

Both passive and active reconnaissance are used in this specific reconnaissance process to gather information on the target organization and its personnel, as well as to locate underlying components such as operating systems, operational services, software versions, etc.

Exploitation

During this stage, the operational Red Team Assessment Service will attempt to alter previously found datasets and make a sincere effort to phish target employees using social engineering techniques via email, phone, fax, SMS, or any other channel.

Post-Exploitation

In order to continue accessing the database for a long time, the working Red Team attempts to install a persistent backdoor in the target network infrastructure during this phase.  Numerous systems having a network infrastructure can be accessed and moved between without authorization with this specific backdoor entry point.  Furthermore, an unauthorized user can create a command channel that has the ability to direct and control a variety of items.

Action on Objectives

It is equivalent to achieving the goals that the client has set. For instance:

• Gathering of user credentials,
• Access sensitive client files,
• Obtain full domain control,
• Measure customer fortifications against insider threats, etc.

Step 4:  Result Analysis & Reporting

This phase involves obtaining a report that concludes a thorough, important, and comprehensible C-level summary of the operational penetration testing and a highly knowledgeable Red Teaming assessment. The report will include security strengths, a thorough analysis of the organizational capability, and recommendations for improvement and restoration.

Step 5:  Lessons-Learned Workshop

In order to increase security and the various Blue Team processes, the employees can now actually receive the findings and engagements that the Red Team has gathered throughout the Red Team Assessment Service as a workshop.  The company’s database will be extremely safe as a result, and staff members are currently being diligently trained on all the vulnerabilities that the Red Team Assessment Service has identified.

Now, we have sincerely elaborated on what happens during the Red Team Assessment.

Getting Started with Penetration Testing and Red Teaming Engagements

There are multiple benefits that can be acquired by the sincere efforts of Red Team Assessment Service that can literally benefit you and your organization by training your employees with the end results that our Red Team Assessment members will come up with.  Some of the prominent methods that the Red Team Assessment Service does are as follows:

• Sending emails to employees while posing as someone else.
• Use employee-side access to infiltrate vulnerable points.
• Use different techniques to attack from multiple angles.
• Detect and anticipate security issues
• Respond to the security issues

How can your business benefit from Red Team Assessment?

There are varying levels of benefits from the Red Team Assessment that are described below:

Breaking Down the Red Team Assessment Phases

• Planning/ Setting objectives
• Reconnaissance
• Target identification
• Gaining access
• Establishing a foothold and maintaining a presence
• Completing objectives

Reporting