April 23, 2026 |

Cybersecurity 101

Red Team Services

To Stop Advanced, Persistent Adversaries, You Need a Team That Can Act Like One

Traditional penetration tests are constrained by scope and time windows. Real adversaries do not have these limits. OnDefend’s red team goes beyond those limits with scenario driven, objective based attacks executed with minimal scope restrictions to determine whether an organization can detect real world threats.

Testing Capabilities

OnDefend’s red teaming program covers:

  • Initial Access & Social Engineering: Combines technical intrusion and social engineering to simulate realistic initial access scenarios.
  • Command, Control & Persistence: Establishes covert access designed to survive monitoring, resets, and credential changes.
  • Adversary Emulation: Replicates tactics and behaviors of real threat actors, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and your risk profile.
  • Privilege Escalation & Lateral Movement: Exploits misconfigurations and trust relationships to escalate privileges and move across systems.
  • Objective-Based Operations: Pursues defined attacker objectives to demonstrate real business and operational impact.
  • Evasion & Detection Measurement: Evades controls over extended time to measure true detection capability and response effectiveness.

Red teaming reveals whether your people, processes, and technology can withstand a real adversary. It gives security leaders the evidence needed to prioritize investment and prove resilience.

Outcomes

The outcomes you walk away from a red teaming engagement with OnDefend include:

  • Full attack paths validated from initial access through escalation, lateral movement, and impact
  • Narrative attack path analysis showing how access was gained, maintained, and expanded
  • Measured detection and response effectiveness against realistic adversary campaigns
  • Business level risk findings to support security investment and remediation priorities

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