Red Teaming

Red Team Services & Adversary Simulation

Objective

Goal-driven exercise

Controlled

Agreed safety limits

Mapped

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Evidence

Detection and response

Red team engagements test whether your organization can prevent, detect, and respond to a realistic attack. Blaze follows agreed objectives and rules of engagement, then shows how far an attacker could get and what your team would see.

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Why it is different

Red team services test whether you would detect the attack

Red team operations are authorized, objective-led simulated attacks. Unlike penetration testing, a red team exercise follows realistic attack paths while staying covert, measuring detection and response against a targeted attack.

Red teaming

An objective-led adversary simulation that uses attack vectors relevant to your environment to test prevention, threat detection, and incident response.

Objective-led attack paths

Social engineering when scoped

Physical testing when scoped

Evasion within agreed limits

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Purple teaming

A collaborative exercise where offensive specialists and blue teams replay the same techniques, improve detection, and strengthen security operations together.

Collaborative approach

Detection tuning

Playbook development

Knowledge transfer

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Coverage

What a red team engagement can cover

Adversary emulation

Multi-stage attack paths mapped to relevant MITRE ATT&CK techniques, from initial access and lateral movement to an agreed objective such as reaching sensitive data.

Social engineering

Phishing or pretexting when authorized, with targets, safeguards, and escalation paths agreed in advance.

Assumed breach and purple teaming

Start from a controlled foothold, or work alongside defenders to validate and tune detection in real time.

Detection and response evidence

See what was detected, where visibility failed, how the response unfolded, and which gaps to close first.

Process

How a red team engagement works

Define the objective

Agree the target outcome, scope, safety limits, escalation paths, and stop conditions.

Prepare the scenario

Select realistic attack paths informed by your threat model, environment, and agreed security risks.

Execute and measure

Pursue the objective while recording how controls, people, threat detection, and incident response perform.

Debrief and improve

Review the attack narrative, missed signals, strengths, control gaps, and prioritized actions with stakeholders.

Penetration testing vs red team(ing)

Goal

Find vulnerabilities in scope

Achieve an objective (data, access)

Scope

Defined targets

Broad; people + process + tech

Stealth

Overt, cooperative

Covert; tests detection

Tests your SOC?

Yes, detection & response

Duration

1-3 weeks

3 weeks to months

Best for

Coverage, compliance evidence

Validating a mature security program

Expert-led delivery

Named specialists from scoping through debrief

Named offensive security specialists stay with the engagement from planning through debrief, providing continuity, direct communication, and clear accountability.

Named

Engagement team

Direct

Operator access

Controlled

Rules of engagement

Clear

Technical debrief

How Blaze keeps delivery accountable

Engagement roles, communication paths, and escalation contacts are confirmed before testing begins.

Frequently asked questions

A penetration test looks for vulnerabilities within an agreed technical scope. A red team exercise pursues a defined objective through realistic attack paths and measures the organization’s detection and response capabilities.

Adversary simulation recreates how real attackers could pursue an objective under controlled conditions. Techniques may be mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, but the scenario follows your threat model, environment, and rules of engagement.

Timing depends on the objective, scope, permitted techniques, and required stealth. Red team operations often run for several weeks, with communications, escalation paths, safety limits, and stop conditions agreed before testing begins.

Purple teaming brings offensive specialists and blue teams together. Techniques are replayed openly to validate telemetry, improve threat detection, test incident response procedures, and identify where controls or processes need improvement.

Start with penetration testing when you need broad vulnerability coverage or have not tested key systems recently. Choose red teaming when foundational testing is in place and you want to assess detection and response against a realistic objective.

Pricing depends on the objective, environment, duration, permitted techniques, and level of stealth. Blaze provides a fixed quote after scoping the target outcome, rules of engagement, safety requirements, and reporting needs.

Ready to test your defenses against a realistic attack?

Plan an objective-led exercise and see what your team detects, misses, and can improve.