Red Team
Assessment
One threat actor. One objective. Full kill-chain. Goal-oriented adversary simulation, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped, brand-safe by design.
Trusted by India's leading enterprises
Define
Threat model, crown jewels, threat-actor profile, rules of engagement, authorisation letter — all in Lemon.
Engage
4–16 weeks of OSINT, initial access, lateral movement, persistence, exfil. Brand-safe, fully logged, MITRE-mapped.
Hand Over
Executive narrative + technical kill-chain report. Optional purple-team handover with your SOC.
What Is a Red Team Assessment?
A red team assessment is a goal-oriented adversary simulation where certified operators emulate a specific threat actor against your organisation — using OSINT, phishing, payload development, lateral movement, persistence, and exfiltration — to test whether your people, process, and technology can detect and respond. Goes beyond pen testing into the realism that RBI / SEBI threat-led testing and TIBER-EU expect.
Beyond vulnerability — into adversary realism
A real attacker doesn\'t care about your CVSS. They care about reaching their objective. So do we.
OSINT & Recon
Public-source intelligence: domains, employees, tech stack, leaked credentials
Phishing & Vishing
Targeted social engineering with bespoke pretexts and infrastructure
Payload Development
Custom payloads, AV/EDR evasion, in-memory only, encrypted C2
Initial Access
Phishing, USB drops, supply-chain pretexts, exposed-service exploit
Lateral Movement
AD attack paths, Kerberos abuse, credential harvest, segmentation bypass
Persistence & Domain Dom.
Persistence implants, golden ticket where authorised, SOC playbook evasion
Exfiltration Simulation
Reach crown-jewel target, demonstrate covert exfil, document SOC visibility
Purple-Team Handover
Walk your SOC through every TTP, every detection gap, every control improvement
Methodology
9 steps. Realistic adversary, brand-safe execution.
Every engagement runs through Lemon, our audit-management platform — fully logged, fully escalation-controlled, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped throughout.
Threat Model & Rules of Engagement
Crown jewels confirmed, threat-actor profile selected, kill-chain stages in scope, authorisation letters signed, escalation contacts and safe-words agreed in writing. Lemon stages all artefacts.
OSINT & External Recon
Public-source intelligence gathering — domains, employees, technology stack, leaked credentials in dark-web corpora, exposed services. Build the attack picture before touching anything.
Pretext Development
Phishing infrastructure stand-up, payload development, AV/EDR evasion testing in isolated lab, social-engineering personas, and physical-pretext gear if in scope.
Initial Access
Phishing, vishing, USB drops, supply-chain pretexts, exposed-service exploitation, leaked-credential reuse. Whichever vector aligns with the threat-actor profile we're simulating.
Privilege Escalation & Lateral Movement
Foothold to domain admin (where in scope), credential harvesting, AD attack-path traversal, segmentation-bypass to crown-jewel environments. MITRE ATT&CK technique-mapped throughout.
Persistence & Domain Dominance
Persistence implants in non-detection paths, golden-ticket / silver-ticket where authorised, evasion of your active SOC playbooks. Quietly demonstrate the business impact.
Data Exfiltration Simulation
Reach the agreed crown-jewel target, demonstrate exfil through covert channels, document SOC visibility (or absence), proof-of-impact captured for the report. Brand-safe at every step.
Three-Layer QA + Purple-Team Handover
L1 operator → L2 senior → L3 architect QA. Optional purple-team handover where we walk your SOC through every TTP, every detection gap, every control improvement.
Reporting & Tabletop
Executive narrative + technical kill-chain report, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, control-gap analysis, optional tabletop exercise to validate response improvements.
The Platform
Lemon, from your side of the engagement
Every engagement is orchestrated in Lemon, our audit-management platform. Your team gets access to the same record we work from — progress, findings as they are confirmed, and the evidence behind each one — while the engagement is running, not once it closes.
Live Engagement Dashboard
Engagement progress, findings and timelines in one view, without waiting for the final report.
Daily Progress Updates
The platform enforces a daily update, so status and blockers are on the record every day of a multi-week engagement.
Artefact Traceability
Screenshots, request and response captures, attack-chain documentation and proof-of-concept evidence, each held against the finding it supports.
Finding Lifecycle to Retest
Every finding tracked from first discovery through remediation and retest, with the audit trail intact.
Quality Assurance
Three reviews before a finding reaches your report
L1 executes and documents. L2 validates and pushes the chain further. L3 signs off on business impact and severity.
Red Team Operator
Executes the attack chain and documents every step — timestamps, screenshots, and a reproducible proof-of-concept for each finding.
Senior Consultant
Validates the attack path, confirms exploitability in your environment, and looks for the chaining the operator did not reach.
Security Architect
Final review of business impact, severity accuracy and report quality. No engagement is released without L3 sign-off.
Compliance-Ready
Aligned to threat-led-testing frameworks
Red team reports satisfy detect-respond clauses your regulator and customers will check — CERT-In, RBI / SEBI threat-led testing, TIBER-EU, NIST CSF, ISO 27001.
Common engagement types
What clients ask us to simulate
Red team engagements cluster into a handful of well-defined patterns — sized for our 4–16 week delivery window.
Deliverables
What you get
Executive narrative for leadership, technical kill-chain for SOC and engineering, MITRE ATT&CK map, and the option of a structured purple-team handover that turns the red exercise into permanent detection improvements.
Executive Narrative
Story of the engagement, business impact, control-gap analysis. Board-ready.
Technical Kill-Chain Report
Every TTP, every command, every detection gap, MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping.
Purple-Team Handover
Optional — structured walk-through with SOC, every TTP, every detection improvement.
Tabletop Exercise
Optional — facilitated tabletop validating the response improvements actually work.
What is a red team assessment?
How is red teaming different from penetration testing?
Black-box, grey-box, or assumed-breach?
Will this trigger our SOC / cause an incident?
How long does a red team take?
Is red teaming required for RBI / SEBI / TIBER?
Do you do social engineering and physical?
What about purple-team handover?
Related services
What clients pair with a red team
A red team goes narrow and deep against one objective. These are the engagements that cover the ground it deliberately walks past.
Compliance & reading
Where the requirement comes from
The position on red teaming differs by regulator. These are the pages that set out which one says what.
Find out what your SOC actually catches.
Whether it\'s a tactical phishing test, a financial-sector threat-led engagement, or a full-spectrum red team into purple-team handover — talk to our red-team lead.
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