Red Team Assessment

Red Team Engagement is a security exercise that simulates real-world attacks to test how well an organization can detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. It goes beyond traditional testing by targeting not just technology, but also people, physical security, and cloud environments like AWS.

This assessment mimics the behavior of real attackers who attempt to exploit weaknesses in systems, manipulate employees, or gain unauthorized physical access. A crucial part of modern Red Teaming is evaluating cloud infrastructure particularly in AWS where misconfigurations, exposed APIs, vulnerable IAM roles, and insufficient logging can be exploited by adversaries.

The engagement typically begins with reconnaissance, collecting intelligence from public sources. From there, simulated attacks may include spear-phishing, network and web application exploitation, AWS credential theft, privilege escalation in cloud environments, and lateral movement across hybrid infrastructure.

In AWS-specific simulations, the Red Team may attempt to:

• Exploit misconfigured S3 buckets or EC2 instances
• Abuse IAM roles or overly permissive policies
• Bypass GuardDuty or CloudTrail detection
• Access or exfiltrate data from AWS services like RDS, S3, or DynamoDB

While operating under strict rules of engagement to avoid any disruption, the Red Team tries to remain undetected, simulating realistic attack paths to test your blue team’s response and detection capabilities.

These exercises are often aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, and customized to reflect hybrid environments, including both on-premise and AWS infrastructure. Red Team Engagements provide actionable insights that help organizations strengthen their overall cybersecurity posture and readiness against advanced, persistent threats.