Red Team Exercise
Test whether your defences actually hold against a realistic adversary.
Get a quoteA structured adversarial simulation — using MITRE ATT&CK techniques — that tests not just whether vulnerabilities exist, but whether your monitoring, detection, and response capabilities would catch and contain a real attacker before material damage occurs.
Penetration testing finds vulnerabilities. Red team exercises answer a different and harder question: if a motivated adversary exploited those vulnerabilities, would you know? Deep Guard's Red Team Exercise simulates a realistic, goal-oriented attack using MITRE ATT&CK-mapped techniques — attempting initial access, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and objective completion while your security controls, monitoring, and response team operate without advance notice. The exercise measures the real detection and containment capability of your organisation, not just the theoretical vulnerability count.
Our process, step by step.
Every engagement follows a structured methodology. No steps are skipped. No shortcuts are taken.
Objective and Rules of Engagement
We define the exercise objective (treasury drain simulation, governance takeover, credential exfiltration, or custom scenario), the rules of engagement, the scope boundaries, and the safety conditions before any testing begins.
Reconnaissance and Initial Access
The Deep Guard red team conducts realistic reconnaissance against your externally visible attack surface, then executes initial access attempts using techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — without advance knowledge of your current security controls.
Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation
Where initial access is achieved, the team simulates realistic lateral movement and privilege escalation — testing whether your network segmentation, monitoring, and access controls contain or fail to contain the simulated attacker.
Objective Execution
The team attempts to achieve the defined exercise objective — simulating the final action a real attacker would take — measuring whether your detection and response capability would have contained the attack before this point.
Purple Team Debrief
Following the exercise, we conduct a collaborative purple team debrief with your security and engineering teams — walking through every step of the attack chain, every detection gap, and every control that held or failed.
Exercise Report and Detection Improvement Plan
A full exercise report documents the complete attack chain, MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping, detection gaps, and a prioritised improvement plan for your monitoring rules, alert thresholds, and response procedures.
Realistic attack chain documentation
A complete record of the attack path taken, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques — giving your team a concrete adversarial scenario to train against.
Detection gap analysis
Identification of every point in the attack chain where your monitoring should have fired and did not — the most actionable output for improving your security operations.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage map
A visualisation of which attack techniques your current controls detect and which they miss — providing a structured basis for prioritising detection improvements.
Purple team improvement plan
Specific detection rules, alert configurations, and response procedure changes to close the gaps identified during the exercise.
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