Red Teaming


An offensive approach to enhance cyber defenses

Today’s Cybersecurity landscape is changing dynamically, cyber attackers are using various hacking techniques and this area is evolving at rapid pace. Cyber attackers have also matured and become extremely organized and resourceful with defined motive.

What is Red Teaming?

Red teaming is the security practice, introduced to fill the gaps in security implementation of organization by mimicking the hackers approach. Red team will always challenges the digital assets of organization in controlled environment to identify critical challenges.

Who are they, what they do ?

Red team are hired external security professionals, who challenges organizations security implementations and controls by pretending as hackers. Red teams are accompanied by blue teams as their counter parts. While red team tries to simulate real world attacks on organization under controlled environment, blue team will constantly monitor the threats to defend. This practice improves organizations security readiness.

So, what are the benefits organization get with this exercise?

Wydur’s red team gives confidence to the client and ensures in identifying unknown vulnerabilities before hackers do. Some of the key benefits of red team exercises are:

  • Protects your organizations from data breaches and security incidents
  • Our red team social engineering drills identifies weak human resources and increases security awareness.
  • Wydur’s change monitoring process identifies new technologies or modifications and updates security scope.
  • Wydur performs multi-perspective attacking to ensure your organization safety from insiders and outsiders.
  • Our extensive manual intervention in penetration testing helps in unearthing vulnerabilities which are mostly remains unknown with automated scanners.
  • Red team exercises always keeps organization security compliances in check.

Activities of a Red Team Engagement

Wydur’s red team continuously engage in identifying hidden vulnerabilities or weakness in an organization assets. Constantly updating the scope of security by monitoring organization technology adaption is one the important factor. Wydur’s red team consistently abuses proactive security controls deployments before hacker does. Our red team activities includes:

  • Social Engineering
  • Change Monitoring
  • Continuous Penetration Testing
  • Security Control abuse

Methodology used for Red Team

Wydur’s red teaming hybrid methodology meets the client security needs by performing tactical continuous penetration testing. Our extensive manual penetration testing team understands the security gaps in business logic and creates automations to exploit found vulnerabilities. Wydur’s security expert team analyze the domain needs and identifies critical vulnerabilities which are mostly remains unidentified when scanned by pattern based tools. Below is a simplified methodology used by Wydur:

  • Scope
  • Information Gathering
  • Fuzzing & Scanning
  • Penetration Testing
  • Reporting & Risk Rating
  • Patching & Re-testing

Wydur Red team always uses best-in class tools and we are strong supporters of open source security community. Our team always handcrafts custom tools depending upon the requirement to reduce the attack noise.