Red Team Testing.

Red teaming is a controlled, full-scope cyberattack simulation that tests an organisation’s ability to detect, respond to, and recover from real-world threats. It goes beyond traditional security testing by assessing your people, processes, and technology.

A red team is a team of highly trained security consultants that uses its skills to challenge an organisation’s security posture deliberately. These ethical hackers aim to identify gaps in your organisation’s defences and demonstrate how it would fare against real-world adversaries.

When implementing red team activities, the Missing Link’s highly trained security professionals will conduct targeted attacks to test every level of your organisation’s security. By challenging its physical security controls and through cyberattacks, our red teamers will develop a vulnerability assessment of your organisation’s defences. Our security experts will then provide advice on countermeasures to enhance your security infrastructure.

Red teaming uncovers hidden vulnerabilities and helps improve your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to threats. It also supports your blue team (internal or external defenders) by stress-testing your environment under real-world attack conditions.

Once our red teamers have completed their testing, they will present a review of the red teaming activities, detailing every attack simulation, your blue team’s response, the strength of your existing security defence and any vulnerabilities found. Our security experts will also document opportunities to improve your organisation’s defences and deliver a step-by-step guide to support implementation.

Red teaming tactics mimic advanced threat actors using real-world techniques to bypass security controls. This includes phishing, social engineering, lateral movement, physical intrusion, and custom malware deployment.

The Missing Link’s red team adapts tools and strategies during each exercise to reflect the dynamic nature of modern attacks. Unlike static penetration testing, red teaming is fluid and responsive, targeting your environment’s specific defences and response mechanisms.

Red teaming is a holistic security assessment that simulates real-world attacks across all layers of your organization; people, processes, and systems. Penetration testing, by contrast, focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in specific systems or applications.

While penetration tests are structured and technical, red teaming is adversarial and goal-driven, mimicking threat actors’ behaviour. At The Missing Link, our red teaming services deliver deeper insights into your security resilience.

The goal of a red vs blue team exercise is to assess how effectively your security team (the blue team) can detect and respond to a sophisticated attack by an adversary (the red team).

A team exercise involves The Missing Link’s highly trained red team simulating covert attacks against your physical and digital assets, including servers, workstations, wireless networks, and even office access, without being detected. This enables your blue team to refine response protocols and close real-world security gaps.

The term ‘red team’ originates from military and intelligence operations, where red forces represented the opposition in simulated conflict scenarios. In cybersecurity, a red team plays the role of a threat actor to test an organisation’s defences.

At The Missing Link, our red teamers are highly trained in criminal tactics, techniques and procedures based on research and actual breaches. They apply this knowledge to challenge your organisation’s security, just as real attackers would, ensuring your defences are prepared for actual threats.