Red Team
Assessment
One threat actor. One objective. Full kill-chain. Goal-oriented adversary simulation, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped, brand-safe by design.
Trusted by India's leading enterprises
Define
Threat model, crown jewels, threat-actor profile, rules of engagement, authorisation letter — all in Lemon.
Engage
4–16 weeks of OSINT, initial access, lateral movement, persistence, exfil. Brand-safe, fully logged, MITRE-mapped.
Hand Over
Executive narrative + technical kill-chain report. Optional purple-team handover with your SOC.
What Is a Red Team Assessment?
A red team assessment is a goal-oriented adversary simulation where certified operators emulate a specific threat actor against your organisation — using OSINT, phishing, payload development, lateral movement, persistence, and exfiltration — to test whether your people, process, and technology can detect and respond. Goes beyond pen testing into the realism that RBI / SEBI threat-led testing and TIBER-EU expect.
Beyond vulnerability — into adversary realism
A real attacker doesn\'t care about your CVSS. They care about reaching their objective. So do we.
OSINT & Recon
Public-source intelligence: domains, employees, tech stack, leaked credentials
Phishing & Vishing
Targeted social engineering with bespoke pretexts and infrastructure
Payload Development
Custom payloads, AV/EDR evasion, in-memory only, encrypted C2
Initial Access
Phishing, USB drops, supply-chain pretexts, exposed-service exploit
Lateral Movement
AD attack paths, Kerberos abuse, credential harvest, segmentation bypass
Persistence & Domain Dom.
Persistence implants, golden ticket where authorised, SOC playbook evasion
Exfiltration Simulation
Reach crown-jewel target, demonstrate covert exfil, document SOC visibility
Purple-Team Handover
Walk your SOC through every TTP, every detection gap, every control improvement
Methodology
9 steps. Realistic adversary, brand-safe execution.
Every engagement runs through Lemon, our audit-management platform — fully logged, fully escalation-controlled, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped throughout.
Threat Model & Rules of Engagement
Crown jewels confirmed, threat-actor profile selected, kill-chain stages in scope, authorisation letters signed, escalation contacts and safe-words agreed in writing. Lemon stages all artefacts.
OSINT & External Recon
Public-source intelligence gathering — domains, employees, technology stack, leaked credentials in dark-web corpora, exposed services. Build the attack picture before touching anything.
Pretext Development
Phishing infrastructure stand-up, payload development, AV/EDR evasion testing in isolated lab, social-engineering personas, and physical-pretext gear if in scope.
Initial Access
Phishing, vishing, USB drops, supply-chain pretexts, exposed-service exploitation, leaked-credential reuse. Whichever vector aligns with the threat-actor profile we're simulating.
Privilege Escalation & Lateral Movement
Foothold to domain admin (where in scope), credential harvesting, AD attack-path traversal, segmentation-bypass to crown-jewel environments. MITRE ATT&CK technique-mapped throughout.
Persistence & Domain Dominance
Persistence implants in non-detection paths, golden-ticket / silver-ticket where authorised, evasion of your active SOC playbooks. Quietly demonstrate the business impact.
Data Exfiltration Simulation
Reach the agreed crown-jewel target, demonstrate exfil through covert channels, document SOC visibility (or absence), proof-of-impact captured for the report. Brand-safe at every step.
Three-Layer QA + Purple-Team Handover
L1 operator → L2 senior → L3 architect QA. Optional purple-team handover where we walk your SOC through every TTP, every detection gap, every control improvement.
Reporting & Tabletop
Executive narrative + technical kill-chain report, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, control-gap analysis, optional tabletop exercise to validate response improvements.
Compliance-Ready
Aligned to threat-led-testing frameworks
Red team reports satisfy detect-respond clauses your regulator and customers will check — CERT-In, RBI / SEBI threat-led testing, TIBER-EU, NIST CSF, ISO 27001.
Common engagement types
What clients ask us to simulate
Red team engagements cluster into a handful of well-defined patterns — sized for our 4–16 week delivery window.
Deliverables
What you get
Executive narrative for leadership, technical kill-chain for SOC and engineering, MITRE ATT&CK map, and the option of a structured purple-team handover that turns the red exercise into permanent detection improvements.
Executive Narrative
Story of the engagement, business impact, control-gap analysis. Board-ready.
Technical Kill-Chain Report
Every TTP, every command, every detection gap, MITRE ATT&CK technique mapping.
Purple-Team Handover
Optional — structured walk-through with SOC, every TTP, every detection improvement.
Tabletop Exercise
Optional — facilitated tabletop validating the response improvements actually work.
What is a red team assessment?
How is red teaming different from penetration testing?
Black-box, grey-box, or assumed-breach?
Will this trigger our SOC / cause an incident?
How long does a red team take?
Is red teaming required for RBI / SEBI / TIBER?
Do you do social engineering and physical?
What about purple-team handover?
Find out what your SOC actually catches.
Whether it\'s a tactical phishing test, a financial-sector threat-led engagement, or a full-spectrum red team into purple-team handover — talk to our red-team lead.