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 penetration testing engagements 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 penetration testing is cost-effective and timely.

The difference in our penetration testing service 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 adversary simulation, detection and response capabilities.

The difference in our approach starts with focusing red team 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 adversary 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 security risk.

Our Purple Team assessment services focus on validating and improving the effectiveness of security controls leveraging both our adversary simulation and detection expertise.

We have found that in Purple Team assessments, 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 adversary 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 simulation and detection teams based on 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 Red and Purple 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 security deficiencies and recommendations for correcting shortfalls. We evaluate capabilities to meet strategic objectives, repeatedly perform desired activities with organizational competence level, not just surviving based on the individual competence of a few key hard-working individuals. Our assessment team approach helps to establish a baseline understanding of the current security program, prioritize issues, and map out a roadmap for addressing capability gaps.

Our Active Directory (AD) and Azure Attack Path Assessments puts you back in control of your directory and eliminates the adversary’s favorite target for lateral movement. Attack Paths are chains of abusable privileges and user behaviors creating direct and indirect connections between users and assets. Traditional methods can’t patch these misconfigurations, as they aren’t vulnerabilities. Years pass, teams change, complexity increases, and Attack Paths explode in numbers. This is the fundamental problem behind most ransomware and breaches events today.

This technology-enabled testing service comprehensively maps AD and Azure Attack Paths and identifies remediation Choke Points to remove millions of paths with the fewest fixes. Powered by BloodHound Enterprise, each Attack Path is prioritized by impact to the organization and accompanied with step-by-step remediation guidance. Let us show you how an adversary sees your directory and show you how to take back control.

Our AI red team service exposes hidden safety and security threats across the entire lifecycle of artificial intelligence (AI) systems by applying our industry leading expertise. By leveraging an adversarial mindset, we assess AI systems during the design, development, deployment, and operations stages. We focus projects on model evaluations, supporting identity and infrastructure assessments, and production application testing through these stages. This comprehensive approach ensures that security principles are effectively applied to emerging technologies like machine learning, large language models, generative AI, and agentic workflows.

Our service decomposes AI systems into their individual components and holistically evaluates them for attack vectors and vulnerabilities both unique to artificial intelligence and traditional technologies. We focus on impact-driven objectives, helping clients protect what they care about most. By simulating advanced threat actors and employing both novel and well-known adversary tactics, SpecterOps provides insight and visibility on worst-case scenarios without incurring actual security risks, ultimately enhancing their overall security posture. Our deliverables provide clients with a realistic and clear understanding of potential attack vectors while providing actional approaches for resolution and defense against adversaries.