We Help Build Best In-Class Security Operations

The objective of our penetration tests is to assist the organization in understanding the full impact of a potential breach and evaluate how effective security controls work to protect the most critical assets. Our team of experts will work with you to design an engagement that will achieve the greatest impact on assessing your risk visibility into your environment. Our experience enables us to execute a methodology while also assuring testing is cost-effective and timely.

The difference in our penetration testing approach is that we focus on impact objective driven testing. Whether we are attempting to access sensitive information, breach security boundaries, or access management systems, you can be sure that our time is efficiently spent on comprehensively testing your organization's capability to protect critical assets.

Knowing what to expect from a red team engagement can be difficult since there are almost as many definitions of what “red teaming” means as there are companies that provide them. Our perspective of red teaming comes from our military backgrounds, rooted in the adversarial analysis mindset to train, and improve detection and response capabilities.

The difference in our approach starts with focusing engagements first and foremost a training opportunity for detection and response capabilities. Whether using novel or well-known adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), our objective is to provide a realistic understanding of the true risk posed by an attack by advanced threat actors. We pride ourselves on building meaningful exercise objectives that help the organization close gaps in detection and investigation technology, processes, and staff training, and ensure our debrief provides the context needed to improve future response. We let you practice response against worst-case scenarios without the worst-case risk.

Our purple team approach focuses on validating and improving the effectiveness of security controls leveraging both our adversary simulation and detection expertise.

We have found that dynamic evaluation is the best way to evaluate the efficacy of security controls. This dynamic approach is especially important given that a preponderance of security controls are vendor supplied and thus the analytic itself is opaque. While dynamic evaluation with test cases is a standard for Purple Teaming as many know it, we believe that the “devil is in the details” with respect to test case selection to represent each behavior. Therefore, we leverage our research and tradecraft knowledge to generate a set of test cases that provide a representative sample of the possible variations of each target behavior.

Gaining a realistic understanding of the effectiveness of your security operations program capabilities is a challenging problem. We have unique expertise in building adversary detection and simulation teams based our roots leading U.S. Department of Defense teams, experience building internal capabilities for Fortune 500 corporations and the focus on training as a core component of our services. We bring experience learned from developing dozens of teams, both in what makes effective capabilities and lessons learned along with way.

SpecterOps provides a third-party, expert perspective of where the organization currently sits, with clear observations of deficiencies and recommendations for correcting shortfalls. We evaluate capabilities to meet strategic objectives, repeatably perform desired activities with organizational competence level, not just surviving based on the individual competence of a few key hard-working individuals. Our assessment approach helps to establish a baseline understanding of the current program, prioritize issues, and map out a roadmap for addressing capability gaps.