Think Like an Adversary. Defend Like a Champion.
IronProbe's Red Team operators simulate the full attack lifecycle of sophisticated threat actors — from OSINT and spear-phishing to lateral movement and data exfiltration — to expose the gaps your defenses will actually face. We don't just find vulnerabilities; we prove how far a real attacker could go and exactly where your security breaks down.
- MITRE ATT&CK-mapped adversarial TTPs
- Full-scope: digital, physical & social engineering
- AI & LLM red teaming capability
- Purple team exercises with your SOC
- Objective-based: crown jewel access, data exfil, domain takeover
Why Red Teaming Goes Beyond Penetration Testing
Red teaming simulates a persistent, motivated adversary — testing your entire security ecosystem, not just individual systems or applications.
Test Your Defenses Against Real Adversaries
Traditional pen tests check for known vulnerabilities. Red teaming tests whether your SOC, incident response, and blue team can actually detect and stop a sophisticated, persistent threat actor. Over 80% of organizations have significant detection gaps revealed only through red team exercises.
Measure Mean Time to Detect & Respond
Red teaming gives your security operations center a realistic benchmark — how long does it take to detect an intrusion? Escalate? Contain? Average MTTD in enterprises is 197 days. IronProbe red team exercises reveal these gaps so you can close them before a real attack.
Board-Level Risk Intelligence
Red team reports communicate risk in business terms — what could an attacker access, what is the financial and reputational impact, and how mature is your security program? Boards and regulators increasingly require red team results as evidence of security program effectiveness.
Red Team Service Capabilities
From social engineering to AI adversarial attacks — IronProbe's red team covers every attack vector your adversaries will use
Full-Scope Adversarial Simulation
We simulate the complete attack lifecycle of a nation-state or advanced criminal group — from initial phishing and credential theft to lateral movement, privilege escalation, and objective achievement — testing your people, processes, and technology simultaneously.
Social Engineering & Phishing Campaigns
Targeted spear-phishing, vishing, and pretexting campaigns crafted using OSINT to mirror the tactics of real threat actors. We test whether employees click, share credentials, or open malicious attachments — and measure detection and response times.
Initial Access & Exploitation
Using MITRE ATT&CK-mapped TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), our red team operators develop custom exploits, leverage zero-days in non-production contexts, and chain vulnerabilities to breach the target environment through the most realistic attack paths.
Lateral Movement & Persistence
Post-exploitation operations that mirror APT behavior: credential dumping, Pass-the-Hash, Kerberoasting, living-off-the-land techniques, C2 beaconing, and establishing persistent backdoors — all to measure how far a real attacker could move inside your environment.
AI Red Teaming
Adversarial testing of LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines, and MCP integrations — including prompt injection, jailbreaking, model extraction, training data poisoning, and indirect prompt injection through untrusted tool outputs. IronProbe is a leader in AI-native red teaming.
Purple Team Exercises
Collaborative red-blue team exercises where IronProbe's red team executes attacks in real time while your SOC and blue team defend and respond. Findings are immediately operationalized into detection rules, playbooks, and improved defensive controls.
All Findings Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Every TTP used during the engagement is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques — giving your blue team, SOC, and SIEM team a precise blueprint for detection rule creation and defensive gap remediation.
Red Team Engagement Phases
A structured, intelligence-driven red team methodology that mirrors how real threat actors operate — from planning through objective achievement
Threat Intelligence & Planning
We profile your organization's threat landscape — identifying the most likely adversary groups (nation-state, ransomware, insider threat), their known TTPs, and your crown jewels. Objectives are agreed upon (data exfiltration, domain takeover, OT compromise) before any activity begins.
Reconnaissance & OSINT
Deep passive and active reconnaissance using OSINT frameworks — harvesting employee data, email patterns, technology stack, exposed credentials on dark web, code leaks on GitHub, and cloud storage misconfigurations to build an attacker's intelligence dossier.
Initial Access Operations
Red team operators attempt to breach the environment using the most realistic attack vectors — spear-phishing with malicious Office macros, credential stuffing from leaked password databases, exploiting internet-facing vulnerabilities, or supply chain compromise scenarios.
Post-Exploitation & Objective Achievement
Once initial access is established, the team simulates APT behavior — moving laterally, escalating privileges, exfiltrating sensitive data, and reaching the agreed objective (e.g., accessing financial systems, PII database, or OT network) to measure the full blast radius.
Debrief, Reporting & Remediation
A comprehensive red team report maps every action to MITRE ATT&CK, includes a timeline of the full attack chain, documents every detection gap and missed alert, and provides prioritized recommendations for your security team, SOC, and leadership.
Red Teaming vs. Penetration Testing
Understanding which service matches your security maturity and objectives
| Attribute | Red Teaming | Penetration Testing |
|---|---|---|
| Objective | Achieve a specific goal (crown jewel access) | Find as many vulnerabilities as possible |
| Scope | Full organization — people, process, tech | Defined systems or applications |
| Duration | 4-12 weeks | 1-4 weeks |
| Awareness | Blue team typically unaware (blind) | Usually coordinated and disclosed |
| Focus | Detection & response capability | Vulnerability identification |
| Reporting | Attack narrative + MITRE ATT&CK map | Vulnerability list + remediation steps |
| Best for | Security-mature organizations | All security maturity levels |
Why IronProbe for Red Teaming?
Operators With Real-World Offensive Experience
Our red teamers are not consultants who passed a course — they are former offensive security professionals with real adversarial operator experience, holding OSCP, CRTO, CRTE, and GREM certifications.
AI-Native Red Teaming Capability
IronProbe is one of the few red team providers with deep AI security expertise — testing LLMs, AI agents, RAG systems, and MCP integrations against adversarial attacks including prompt injection and model extraction.
Board-Ready Reporting
We translate complex adversarial findings into clear business risk narratives for C-suite and board audiences, alongside technical detail for your security engineering team. No other firm does this as well.
Continuous Improvement Partnership
We don't just deliver a report and leave. IronProbe partners with your security team post-engagement to implement detection rules, tune SIEM alerts, and run follow-up purple team exercises to verify defensive improvements.
Red Teaming FAQs
Common questions about IronProbe's red team and adversarial simulation services
Penetration testing is a focused, time-boxed assessment of specific systems or applications to identify as many vulnerabilities as possible. Red teaming is a goal-oriented adversarial simulation where a dedicated team of operators attempts to achieve a specific objective (e.g., exfiltrate customer data or gain domain admin access) while evading detection. Red teaming tests the entire security ecosystem — people, process, and technology — rather than just individual assets.
Red team engagements typically run for 4-12 weeks depending on scope. A focused objective-based exercise targeting a single crown jewel may take 4 weeks. A full-scope enterprise red team simulation covering physical, digital, and social engineering vectors can take 8-12 weeks. We work with your team to define the right duration to meet your objectives and budget.
This depends on the engagement model. In a 'blind' red team, only the CISO or a small executive group knows — the SOC and blue team operate without prior notice, giving you the most realistic measurement of detection capability. In a 'purple team' model, the blue team is aware and collaborates in real time. We offer both models and recommend starting with purple teaming if your team is newer to adversarial exercises.
Our red team report includes: a full attack narrative (blow-by-blow timeline), MITRE ATT&CK mapping of every TTP used, detection gap analysis (what was seen vs. missed by your SOC), an objective achievement summary (what crown jewels were accessed), risk-prioritized recommendations for defensive improvements, and an executive summary for board and C-suite communication.
Yes. We perform cloud-native red teaming on AWS, Azure, and GCP environments — testing for IAM abuse, metadata service exploitation, cross-account attacks, container escapes, serverless function abuse, and cloud lateral movement. We can also perform hybrid red team exercises that span on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments simultaneously.
Yes. IronProbe is a specialist in AI red teaming — adversarial testing of LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. We test for prompt injection, jailbreaking, indirect prompt injection, model extraction, training data inference, and agentic workflow abuse. This is a critical service for any organization deploying AI in customer-facing or high-risk internal applications.
Are You Ready to Be Tested by a Real Adversary?
Find out how far a real attacker could get inside your organization. IronProbe's red team will give you the honest answer — and a clear roadmap to close the gaps.