Red Teaming
A penetration test asks whether a system can be broken. A red team exercise asks whether your organisation would notice. Astra builds attack scenarios from current threat intelligence for your sector, executes them against agreed objectives, and reports on what your defenders detected, what they missed, and how long each stage took.
What you get
Outcomes, not activity.
- Scenarios grounded in real threat activityTactics, techniques and procedures are drawn from adversaries plausibly interested in your industry, not from a generic playbook.
- A measured view of detectionEvery stage is timestamped, so you learn where in the kill chain your controls fired, where they were silent, and how long response actually took.
- People and process in scopeSocial engineering, physical adjacency and process weaknesses are tested alongside technical controls, because that is how real intrusions begin.
- Mapped to a framework you already useFindings and coverage are aligned to MITRE ATT&CK so they slot into your existing detection engineering backlog.
How it runs
A defined sequence, agreed up front.
You know what happens in each stage, who is involved, and what lands at the end of it before the engagement starts.
- 01
Preparation
Objectives, crown jewels, constraints and the white team are defined, and a letter of authorisation is signed before any activity begins.
- 02
Targeted threat intelligence
We analyse your threat landscape and attack surface, select the adversary profile to emulate, and build the exercise playbooks.
- 03
Execution
The scenarios run: initial access, establishing a foothold, lateral movement, privilege escalation and action on objectives — under continuous white team oversight.
- 04
Closure and purple teaming
We walk your defenders through the full attack path, replay the detections that should have fired, and agree the improvements worth making first.
Deliverables
What lands on your desk.
Written for two audiences: the engineers who have to fix it and the executives who have to fund it.
- Targeted threat landscape report for your organisation
- Attack path narrative with timestamps against detection events
- Technical report and separate executive report
- MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping
- Prioritised remediation and detection engineering plan
- Joint purple team replay session
Related
Often engaged alongside
Next step
Scope a red teaming engagement.
Half an hour with a practitioner. You will leave knowing what the work involves, roughly how long it takes, and what it would find.