Red Teaming Services

Red teaming is an objective-driven security assessment in which an authorized team emulates a real adversary — using the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) as actual threat actors — to test whether an organization can prevent, detect, and respond to an attack across its people, processes, technology, and physical locations.

A penetration test asks, “What vulnerabilities exist in this scope?” A red team asks, “Could a motivated attacker reach our most critical assets, and would we notice?” Red teams pursue specific objectives — access a payment system, exfiltrate customer data, gain domain admin — using any viable path, typically with only a small group inside the organization aware the exercise is running.

VerSprite red teaming starts from a threat model, not a checklist. Every engagement is built around who would realistically target your organization, why, and how.

Most red teams pick objectives and attack techniques from experience and current tradecraft. VerSprite starts one step earlier: with PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis), the risk-centric threat modeling methodology co-created by VerSprite CEO Tony UcedaVélez.

That means each engagement is scoped to:

• Your threat actors — the syndicates, competitors, insiders, opportunistic attackers, or nation-state groups most likely to target your industry, sub-segment, and business model
• Their motives — extortion, IP theft, fraud, sabotage, data exfiltration, or persistence
• Your highest-impact targets — the systems, data, and processes whose compromise would hurt the business most
• Your governance and awareness goals — so findings measure not just technical exposure, but whether security awareness and corporate controls hold up under real pressure

The result is a red team exercise whose findings map directly to business risk, which makes them easier to prioritize and easier to explain to senior leadership.

Traditional Red Teaming

Objective-based adversary simulation built from a realistic threat model for your industry. Engagements go well beyond automated phishing and can include:

• OSINT reconnaissance on people, infrastructure, and exposed data
• Spear phishing, smishing (SMS phishing), and vishing (voice phishing)
• Look-alike and spoofed domains with valid TLS certificates
• In-person impersonation and physical intrusion testing
• External exploitation, cloud and identity attacks, and lateral movement toward agreed objectives
• Deepfake voice and video impersonation through VerSprite DFaaS

Goals are aligned with your security awareness objectives and corporate security governance controls, so the exercise measures the real security awareness of employees and officials, not just technical defenses.

Organizational Threat Modeling (OTM)

Organizational Threat Modeling is VerSprite’s threat-led variant of red teaming, created after clients asked how the PASTA approach could drive multi-faceted attack simulations against an entire organization.

Each OTM engagement:

1. Examines threat motives and identifies high-impact targets for your organization.
2. Correlates them to business impact scenarios such as extortion, IP theft, sabotage, data exfiltration, and persistence for malware propagation.
3. Builds a custom threat library for your organization, mapped to those scenarios.
4. Launches attack patterns that emulate the relevant threat actors — modern syndicates, corporate mercenaries, opportunistic hackers, insiders — against employees, vendors, physical locations, self-managed networks, and cloud services.
5. Shows where the security program is weakest and what happens if those gaps aren’t remediated, producing a prioritized security roadmap that senior management can act on.

1. Scoping and rules of engagement. Objectives, in-scope and out-of-scope targets, permitted techniques, timing, and emergency stop procedures are agreed with a small “white team” of stakeholders who know the test is running.
2. Threat modeling. PASTA-based analysis identifies relevant threat actors, motives, targets, and attack paths.
3. Reconnaissance. OSINT on people, domains, infrastructure, vendors, and physical locations.
4. Initial access. Social engineering, physical intrusion, or external exploitation, as the threat model and rules of engagement allow.
5. Post-exploitation and objective pursuit. Privilege escalation, lateral movement, and persistence toward the agreed objectives, while measuring what your defenses detect.
6. Reporting and debrief. An attack narrative, a timeline of red team actions against your detection and response events, findings mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and prioritized remediation.
7. Remediation validation. Follow-up testing to confirm fixes work.

• MITRE ATT&CK — red team activity and findings are mapped to ATT&CK tactics and techniques, so results translate directly into detection engineering work.
• DORA threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) — the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act requires certain financial entities to perform threat-led penetration testing. VerSprite engagements can be structured to support threat-led testing requirements.
• TIBER-EU and CBEST — threat-intelligence-based red teaming frameworks used by European and UK financial regulators, built on the same threat-led principle as Organizational Threat Modeling.
• NIST SP 800-53 CA-8(2) — the red team exercises control enhancement for organizations aligning to NIST.

What You Get

• An executive summary written in business-risk terms
• A full attack narrative showing how each objective was pursued and where it succeeded or was stopped
• A detection timeline comparing red team actions with your SOC’s alerts and response
• Findings mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, with root cause across people, process, and technology
• A prioritized remediation roadmap and follow-up validation

VerSprite delivers red teaming across industries where security failures translate directly to financial loss, safety risk, or regulatory exposure.

Financial Services & FinTech — Simulate threat actor campaigns against online banking, payment, and trading systems; emulate fraud, account takeover, and lateral movement; and test detection and response across cloud, API, and hybrid environments.

Healthcare & Life Sciences — Emulate ransomware and data extortion campaigns against clinical and research environments, identify exploitable paths to ePHI and medical devices, and assess resilience against attacks that could disrupt patient care.

SaaS & Technology Providers — Run full-scope adversary emulation against cloud-native and multi-tenant environments, test authentication, APIs, and tenant isolation, and validate monitoring to support enterprise customer trust.

Retail & E-Commerce — Simulate credential stuffing, payment fraud, and supply chain compromise, and assess detection and response readiness during peak business operations.

Manufacturing & Critical Infrastructure — Emulate targeted attacks against converged IT/OT environments, test segmentation between enterprise and industrial networks, and validate readiness against nation-state tactics.

Organizational Threat Modeling — Threat-led attack simulation built from your organization’s threat motives and business impact scenarios.

Deepfake-as-a-Service (DFaaS) — Consent-based voice-clone and deepfake video attacks against your approval and verification workflows.

PASTA Threat Modeling — The risk-centric methodology behind every VerSprite offensive security engagement.

Penetration Testing — Scoped testing to find and exploit vulnerabilities in specific systems and applications.

Which Penetration Test Is Right for Your Business? — A guide to choosing between assessment types.