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Threat-led scenario design
Define plausible adversary objectives using your business context, exposed services and relevant threats. Focus on meaningful attack paths rather than testing activity for its own sake.
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Prevention
Test your defences against realistic attack paths.
Understand how an adversary could move towards an agreed business objective, and how effectively your team would detect and respond. Cybergen connects controlled attack simulation with practical defensive improvement.
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RED TEAMING & PURPLE TEAMINGThreat-led scenariosObjective-led red teamingPurple teamingDetection validationRetesting
Why it matters
Validate the attack path and the response
Security tools and procedures need to work together when an attacker moves across identities, systems and services. Testing isolated weaknesses can leave questions about the wider attack path and the response it would trigger.
Red teaming evaluates that path through an objective-led exercise. Purple teaming brings offensive and defensive teams together to test techniques, examine telemetry and improve controls collaboratively. We help you choose the approach that answers the questions your organisation needs to resolve.
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How Cybergen helps
Six connected areas, scoped to your organisation and delivered by people who understand the business context behind the controls.
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Objective-led red teaming
Conduct agreed activity towards a defined outcome, such as access to a representative sensitive resource. Assess the barriers, detections and response decisions encountered along the way.
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Collaborative purple teaming
Work openly with defenders to run selected techniques, examine results and make improvements. Use repeatable tests to understand whether changes have improved detection or prevention.
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Detection and investigation validation
Review which events were generated, which alerts were raised and what investigators could establish. Identify gaps between available telemetry and the information responders need.
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Control and response improvement
Translate observed weaknesses into changes to configuration, monitoring, identity safeguards and response procedures. Prioritise improvements around the attack paths demonstrated.
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Retesting and knowledge transfer
Repeat agreed scenarios after remediation and explain the techniques to your teams. Capture what worked and where further validation is needed.
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Clear outputs. Practical next steps
- Defined objectives, authorised scope and rules of engagement.
- An evidence-backed timeline of agreed activity and defensive observations.
- A report explaining attack paths, business implications and improvement priorities.
- A collaborative debrief and retest plan for the changes that matter most.
How we work
A clear path from first conversation to results
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STEP 01
Agree
Set objectives, authorisation, boundaries, escalation contacts and stop conditions.
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STEP 02
Prepare
Select scenarios and define how testing will avoid unacceptable operational impact.
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STEP 03
Exercise
Run the agreed approach and collect the evidence needed to assess results.
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STEP 04
Strengthen
Debrief, prioritise improvements and validate selected changes.
How is this different from penetration testing?
Penetration testing typically assesses exploitable weaknesses within a defined technical scope. Red teaming is driven by an adversary objective and examines the wider path, including detection and response. Both have value.
Should we start with red or purple teaming?
Purple teaming can suit teams that want to validate and improve specific detections collaboratively. Red teaming can help evaluate broader resilience when foundational controls and response processes are ready for that test.
Are social engineering and physical testing included?
Only when explicitly authorised and included in the rules of engagement. Third-party systems, sensitive techniques and potentially disruptive actions require clearly defined boundaries.
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Turn attack simulation into stronger defence.
Choose an exercise that answers a clear question about your exposure, detections or response, and leaves your teams with practical improvements.
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