Red teaming
Red Teaming means that we hack our way into your network, aiming to work with your Blue Team to learn and adapt to the latest hacking techniques. How well do your defences against targeted attacks work?
Test whether your
defences actually work.
Securance simulates real-world adversaries to continuously validate your people, detections, processes, and technology — before ransomware groups or advanced attackers do.
The problem
Your SOC looks mature.
But can it stop a real attacker?
Compliance audits pass. Annual pentests complete. Dashboards stay green. Yet the question that actually matters — would your organisation catch and stop a determined attacker — goes unanswered every year.
Annual pentests find vulnerabilities — they don't test whether you'd catch an attacker. A penetration test tells you what's exposed. It doesn't tell you whether your SOC would detect, contain, or respond to a real threat operating inside your environment.
Compliance frameworks optimise for audit, not resilience. Meeting DORA, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 requirements tells regulators what controls exist. It says nothing about whether those controls hold under realistic adversary pressure.
Modern attacks succeed through identity and cloud — where most red teams lack depth. Entra ID abuse, OAuth token theft, cloud privilege escalation — the attack surfaces where breaches happen today are consistently undertested by traditional red team programmes.
A yearly exercise captures a single moment in time. Your environment, your detection stack, and attacker techniques all change faster than an annual cycle. Point-in-time testing creates a false sense of continuous protection.
Why Securance
We emulate modern attackers.
Not checklist exercises.
Every engagement is executed by senior offensive operators using current threat intelligence and real-world TTPs — designed to answer the question that actually matters: would your organisation catch this?
Understanding the difference
Pentesting finds weaknesses.
Red teaming measures resilience.
These are fundamentally different exercises with different objectives, different outputs, and different answers. The distinction determines which programme your organisation actually needs.
- Find as many vulnerabilities as possible
- Broad scope, time-boxed discovery
- Visible, acknowledged testing
- Technical findings as the primary output
- Point-in-time snapshot
- Compliance-driven engagement model
- Emulate real attacker behaviour and TTPs
- Targeted, stealthy, objective-driven
- Covert operations to test real detection
- Business impact and resilience as the measure
- Continuous validation over time
- Outcome-driven — would we catch this?
How it works
From scoping to full
resilience clarity in four steps.
A structured engagement that gives your team a complete, validated picture of your defensive effectiveness — with no loose ends and no assumptions left in place.
Strategy session & programme design
A focused conversation with a Securance senior operator — no sales theatre, direct technical dialogue. We map your environment, threat model, and SOC maturity, then design an adversary simulation programme scoped to answer your most critical resilience questions.
You know exactly what will be tested and what success looks like.Adversary simulation — covert execution
Senior operators execute the engagement with the realism of a sophisticated real-world attacker. Your SOC operates as normal. We simulate the full attack chain — initial access, identity compromise, lateral movement, privilege escalation, crown jewel access — documenting every detection success and failure.
Every detection gap is captured with forensic precision.Findings, debrief & purple team
You receive a complete deliverable — executive attack narrative, technical findings, ATT&CK mapping, and detection gap analysis. We then run collaborative purple team workshops with your SOC to operationalise findings and build measurable detection improvements before the next cycle.
You know exactly where you stand and what your team needs to do next.Resilience roadmap & continuous programme
A prioritised improvement roadmap structured by risk impact and complexity. For Continuous Red Teaming programmes, the next exercise cycle is scoped immediately — ensuring your defences keep pace with an evolving threat landscape and your resilience improvements are tracked over time.
You know your resilience is improving — and you can prove it to the board.Continuous Red Teaming — Securance
Know whether your
defences actually work.
Schedule a strategy session with a Securance senior operator. We'll show you what your environment looks like from an attacker's perspective — and what it would take to actually stop one.
A free 30-minute session is all it takes. No sales theatre. No jargon. Just operational clarity.
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The Connection Between Red Teaming And DORA
The new Digital Operational Resilience Act, or DORA for short, will require financial institutions in the EU to make concrete steps to improve operational cybersecurity. One requirement is called Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT), also known as Red Teaming.
Red teaming & Pen testing
Our Red Team hacks your network while trying to stay undetected by your Blue Team. The Blue Team can be your internal, or external security response team or security operations center (SOC).
The goal of Red Teaming is to improve your Blue Team’s capabilities. A closing session with your SOC/Blue Team is always included, where the Blue Team learns where opportunities exist to improve detection and response.
Red Teaming can be seen as a form of Penetration Testing, but it is different in several important ways.
First of all, the goal is different. A pentest aims to find as many vulnerabilities as possible in the shortest reasonable timeframe. Red Teaming projects aim to measure and improve Blue Team capabilities. Like a real attacker, a Red Team has to try to avoid easy detection.
Also, Red Teaming is often based on threat intel, i.e., follows methods known to be commonly used by threat actors.
So, while the techniques used are often similar, Red Teaming and Penetration Testing have different goals and a different approach.
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