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Red Teaming

Challenge Your Defenses Before Attackers Do

Validate risk through objective-based adversary simulation across electronic, social, and physical domains. Named senior operators validate every finding with evidence and context, so your team gets a deliverable precise enough to act on and defenses sharpened by every engagement.

Scope an Engagement

7,000+

Offensive engagements per year

4–6 wk 

 Typical objective-based engagement duration.

 100%

 Findings validated with evidence and reproduction steps

30+ yrs

Securing the world's most complex organizations

Real Adversary Tradecraft

Findings Proven Against Real Adversary Behavior

Follow real attack paths across critical systems to prove what an adversary could accomplish, where defenses break down, and what to fix first. Use that evidence to prioritize controls, justify budget, and communicate risk based on what an attacker actually achieved.

Test How Attackers Reach Critical Assets
Trace how an attacker could move from initial access to your most critical systems, showing where business risk concentrates and which gaps to close first.
Expose Gaps Across the Full Attack Path
Run across every domain a adversary would use in a single coordinated operation, surfacing connected risk that point-in-time assessments may miss.
Prove Findings With Defensible Evidence
Every finding is executed, evidenced, and rated against a defensible standard, so the readout holds up with your team, leadership, and the board.
 
HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Know Who’s Testing. See How It’s Done.

Build trust into every engagement. Named senior operators work inside sensitive environments under clear rules of engagement, giving your team real-time clarity into who is testing, what they are doing, and what they find.

Named Senior Operators
Each engagement is led by experienced practitioners vetted for sensitive environments, so your team knows the expertise behind the work.
Scope and Boundaries Defined Up Front
Every engagement opens with planning and rules of engagement that define objectives, scope, and operator boundaries before testing begins.
Transparent Tooling and Tradecraft
Daily standups and timestamps help your team correlate operator activity with alerts and understand the TTPs, tooling, and infrastructure used.
Findings You Can See as They Develop
Access findings, evidence, and reports on demand through a customer portal, so your team can understand what was found before the engagement closes.
Clear Ownership When It Matters
You have dedicated contacts accountable for delivery, communication, and escalation, so your team always knows who to reach and what happens next.
Scoring Your Team Can Defend
Each finding is scored for technical merit, exploitability, and business impact, with NIST-aligned documentation for audit, leadership, and board review.
Transformational MSSP
No. 19 Managed Security Service Provider
No. 1502 Fastest-Growing Private Company 
Trailblazing MSSP 
THE POWER OF PURPLE

From Attack Path to Stronger Defense

Turn every engagement into defensive action. Offense feeds validation, defense integrates what the engagement uncovers, and the readout sets the starting line for what your next red team has to break.

AI RED TEAMING

Test AI Systems Against Real Attack Paths

Extend adversary-driven testing to your AI and ML systems across models, pipelines, and supporting platforms. Operators assess prompt manipulation, model exploitation, misalignment, and data leakage paths, using AI to accelerate OSINT and reconnaissance while human experts drive the tradecraft, validate every finding, and decide what an attacker would do next.

Customer Outcomes

Red Teaming in Action

Testing Fraud Controls Against Real Adversary Behavior

Data Annotation Company

A data annotation company needed to validate whether its contractor onboarding platform could withstand fraud attempts, credential theft, and credential selling tied to AI model training workflows. UltraViolet Cyber tested how the customer’s existing controls would perform against realistic bypass attempts and used OSINT to uncover underground activity that could enable fraud.

 

The Challenge

  • Validate whether fraud prevention controls could detect and stop realistic bypass attempts.
  • Understand how credential theft and credential selling could affect contractor onboarding.
  • Identify leaked information that malicious actors could use to facilitate fraud.
  • Move beyond control review and prove how defenses held up under real adversary behavior.

The Solution

  • Reviewed the customer’s existing fraud prevention controls and mapped potential bypass paths.
  • Developed multiple attack plans designed to test controls without triggering alerts or being stopped.
  • Conducted OSINT across dark web sources to identify leaked information tied to the company.
  • Found underground Telegram channels used to sell credentials and fraud-enabling information.
  • Helped the customer understand where additional risk existed and how malicious actors were operating.
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We knew fraud was a real concern, but your team showed us how malicious actors could actually get around our controls. That clarity made all the difference in knowing what to strengthen next.

Proving How an Assumed Breach Could Reach Cardholder Data

Financial Services Company

A large financial services company needed annual testing to satisfy PCI requirements and understand how far an attacker could move from an assumed-breach position inside its corporate network. UltraViolet Cyber started from a provisioned server, conducted reconnaissance, identified a vulnerable web application managing passwords, and used that access to test whether restricted network segments and the cardholder data environment could be reached.

The engagement showed how one unpatched application could become a path to sensitive systems, giving business stakeholders clear evidence of risk and the value of objective-based testing.

The Challenge

  • Satisfy annual PCI testing requirements with realistic assumed-breach testing.
  • Start from a provisioned server inside the corporate network and test how far access could extend.
  • Validate whether restricted network segments could be reached from an internal foothold.
  • Show business stakeholders the real risk of unpatched software in the environment.

The Solution

  • Conducted reconnaissance from the granted network position.
  • Identified a vulnerable web application used to manage passwords.
  • Exploited the application and decrypted the password database, revealing sensitive credentials.
  • Used compromised passwords to access systems in restricted network segments.
  • Demonstrated a path to the cardholder data environment and connected the findings back to business risk.
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This showed us exactly why assumed-breach testing matters. UltraViolet connected one vulnerable application to a real path into our cardholder data environment and gave our stakeholders the proof they needed to understand the risk.

Aligned to Standards Auditors Recognize 

Engagements follow recognized methodology and evidence standards your auditors and regulators already use, so the readout supports compliance, leadership, and board review.

Built into Every Engagement

Adversary Tradecraft, Documented in Evidence 

Move from objective to action. Every engagement starts with planning and rules of engagement, runs against a defined objective, and ends with a structured deliverable your team and SOC can both act on.

Objective-Based Simulation
Operators pursue a defined objective across critical systems and adversary-relevant domains, chaining the moves an attacker would make to reach high-value access.
Composite Attack Paths
Electronic, social, and physical operations run as a single chain, so the test mirrors how an adversary would actually pivot between domains.
Assumed Breach Validation
Start from an established foothold to test how the SOC detects, investigates, and responds, then work with the blue team to convert findings into tuned detections.
Current Adversary Tradecraft
Apply active adversary TTPs informed by UltraViolet TIDE Team intelligence, so the engagement reflects the threats your team is preparing to defend against.
Human-Led Exploitation
Operators drive the tradecraft, decisions, and creativity automated scans cannot replicate. AI assists with OSINT and reconnaissance, while every exploit decision is made by a human.
Evidence You Can Act On
Receive an executive risk report, threat model, attack-path maps, findings with reproduction steps, intelligence report, and tactical readout from the operators who ran the engagement.
WEBINAR

Beyond the Spy Game

State-sponsored cyber activity is no longer limited to intelligence gathering; it now spans disruption, destruction, influence, and financially motivated operations that directly impact businesses and critical infrastructure.

In this webinar, Dan Gittis, Director of the TIDE (Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineer) Team, provides a structured, real‑world overview of how nation-state cyber operations are evolving and why understanding adversary motives is critical to effective defense.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Learn more about Red Teaming

What is Red Teaming and how is it different from a penetration test?
Red Teaming is an objective-based adversary emulation that pursues a defined goal across your critical systems and, where in scope, electronic, social, and physical domains. While penetration testing identifies exploitable risk across defined targets, Red Teaming validates whether your people, controls, and detections hold up against the way real adversaries operate — including how attackers use AI to move faster.