Adversary Simulation.
We simulate real-world attacks to uncover hidden vulnerabilities, strengthen detection and response capabilities, and validate the resilience of your systems against advanced, and persistent threats.
Breached Labs.
Adversary Simulation Experts.
We excel in adversary simulation, helping organizations prepare for sophisticated threats. Our experts replicate real attacker behaviors to assess your detection and response capabilities across systems and environments.
We emulate advanced threat actors with precision, uncovering blind spots and resilience gaps that traditional testing often misses. Gain strategic insights to harden your defenses before real adversaries strike.
We emulate advanced threat actors to uncover blind spots and help you strengthen your defenses before real adversaries strike.
Our team holds industry-leading certifications, demonstrating our commitment to excellence in cybersecurity.
Our Team's Certifications
Our team possesses top-tier, industry-recognized certifications, showcasing our dedication to delivering cybersecurity excellence.
Benefits of Adversary Simulation
Discover how adversary simulation protects your business, data, and customers
Identify Vulnerabilities
Uncover exploitable weaknesses in your organization before malicious actors can find them.
Ensure Compliance
Meet regulatory requirements like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR while reducing legal risks and building stakeholder trust.
Third-Party Verification
Receive unbiased assessments of your security posture from experts, with detailed reports to support compliance and stakeholder confidence.
Prevent Data Breaches
Fix vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them, saving millions in potential breach costs.
Improve Development
Teach developers to write more secure code by identifying common security mistakes.
Protect Business Value
Safeguard your reputation, customer trust, and competitive advantage in the market.
Risk Visibility
Gain detailed insights into your organization's security posture for better decision-making.
Why Adversary Simulation?
Adversary simulation is essential for protecting organizations by revealing and addressing security gaps before real attackers can exploit them.
Prevent Costly Data Breaches and PII Exposure
Adversary emulation uncovers vulnerabilities that could lead to breaches, protecting sensitive customer data like personally identifiable information (PII) and avoiding expensive legal penalties, ransom demands, or cleanup costs.
Retain Customers and Avoid Trust Erosion
By proactively fixing security gaps, Adversary emulation prevents incidents that could damage your reputation and cause customers to abandon your platform, ensuring long-term loyalty and confidence.
Minimize Revenue Loss from Potential Downtime
Security exploits can cripple organizations, leading to lost sales and operational disruptions. Adversary emulation helps keep your business online and revenue flowing by thwarting potential attacks.
Protect Competitive Edge and Market Position
A breach can hand competitors an advantage by exposing trade secrets or driving clients elsewhere. Adversary emulation safeguards your intellectual property and market standing, keeping you ahead in the game.
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Simulate An Attack?
We'll help you identify the most effective adversary simulation approach tailored to your organization. Connect with one of our experts today for a complimentary, no-obligation assessment.
Through close collaboration, we'll craft a targeted simulation plan to test your defenses and ensure your organization is prepared for real-world cyber threats.
Contact UsOur red team adversary emulation replicates real-world attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures to uncover gaps across your people, processes, and technology, ensuring end-to-end readiness against both targeted and advanced threats.
Initial Access
Simulating phishing, drive-by downloads, or supply chain compromise to gain entry.
Privilege Escalation
Attempting to elevate privileges through misconfigurations or exploit chaining.
Credential Dumping
Extracting credentials from memory, registry, or files for lateral movement.
Lateral Movement
Pivoting across systems using valid accounts or remote execution techniques.
Command and Control
Establishing persistent outbound channels to simulate attacker communication.
Persistence
Implementing backdoors or scheduled tasks to maintain long-term access.
Defense Evasion
Bypassing EDR, antivirus, or logging mechanisms to remain undetected.
Data Exfiltration
Simulating the theft of sensitive data via covert or encrypted channels.
Impact Simulation
Mimicking destructive actions like ransomware deployment or service disruption.
Penetration Testing Methodology
Our thorough method for detecting and resolving security weaknesses.
Threat Intelligence
Define realistic threat actors and specific attack objectives based on your industry’s unique risks, evolving threat landscape, and known adversary TTPs documented in threat intelligence sources.
Outline well-defined goals, expected outcomes, and the full simulation scope, complete with mapped attack paths, adversary profiles, and key systems or data to target throughout the exercise.
- Identify relevant threat actors, capabilities, and techniques to simulate during the adversary simulation exercise.
- Gather intelligence on common attack paths, exploits, and vulnerabilities within your industry.
- Set clear strategic objectives, success metrics, and desired outcomes for the adversary simulation exercise.
- Design realistic scenarios based on adversary behaviors mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Rules of Engagement
Establish clear legal, operational, and ethical boundaries to guide the adversary simulation, ensuring responsible execution at all times and preventing unintended impact on business operations.
Ensure full alignment and buy-in from key stakeholders across the organization to maintain transparency, trust, and control throughout every phase of the engagement.
- Define engagement scope, limitations, and authorized attack surfaces to avoid unintended disruption.
- Set clear communication protocols, escalation paths, and emergency shutdown procedures if needed.
- Align expectations with legal, compliance, and risk teams before beginning any simulation activities.
- Coordinate the testing timeline, assign team roles, and finalize operational workflows and logistics.
Environment Recon
Perform passive and active reconnaissance to gather intelligence without triggering any alerts or alarms within the organization's existing security environment.
Identify exposed services, leaked credentials, and internal network topology to create a detailed map of the organization's attack surface.
- Use OSINT to discover public data such as code repositories, employee emails, and exposed infrastructure leaks.
- Enumerate network ranges, domains, subdomains, and exposed ports or services across the environment.
- Map relationships and dependencies between cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure components.
- Identify the full technology stack, security defenses in place, and potential attacker entry points.
Attack Emulation
Execute realistic and end-to-end attack paths across the full kill chain, from initial access to privilege escalation, lateral movement, and impact simulation.
Emulate real-world adversary behaviors and techniques closely aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework for maximum operational relevance.
- Perform phishing, payload delivery, or initial compromise techniques to gain a foothold in the target environment.
- Establish persistence, escalate privileges, and access sensitive internal data across multiple systems.
- Move laterally within the network and exploit misconfigurations or trust relationships between hosts.
- Simulate end-stage objectives such as data exfiltration, ransomware staging, or domain takeover.
Post-Exploitation
The post-exploitation phase focuses on maintaining access, expanding control, and assessing the depth of compromise after initial exploitation.
It includes actions such as lateral movement, data access validation, and persistence setup to evaluate the full impact of an attacker’s presence.
This step validates threats and highlights the need for remediation without causing harm.
- Establish persistence through techniques like scheduled tasks, services, or implanted access points.
- Perform lateral movement to pivot across internal systems and expand the attack surface.
- Access and stage sensitive data to simulate real-world attacker objectives post-compromise.
- Enumerate internal network trust relationships, credentials, and permissions for further actions.
Reporting
The reporting phase focuses on documenting findings, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and providing actionable remediation steps.
It includes creating detailed technical reports and concise summaries for stakeholders, often with visuals to clarify attack paths.
This step ensures clear communication of risks and solutions to improve security.
- Comprehensive documentation of attack paths, TTPs used, and systems impacted during the red-team exercise.
- Risk-based analysis of findings, focusing on detection gaps, privilege escalation, and lateral movement success.
- Actionable recommendations to improve detection, response, and hardening of exposed attack surfaces.
- Executive summary outlining key risks, business impact, and strategic recommendations for leadership.
Testing Approaches
Understanding the difference between testing methodologies to choose the right approach for your security needs.
Black Box Testing
Simulating an external threat actor with no prior knowledge, access, or insight into the internal environment, systems, or defenses.
Black box adversary simulation replicates real-world threat behavior, where attackers operate without insider access or privileged information about the organization.
The red team interacts only with externally exposed assets, relying on reconnaissance, enumeration, and exploitation to gain access and escalate within the environment.
This method uncovers how far a determined attacker could go from the outside, providing critical insights into detection gaps and perimeter weaknesses.
Assumed Breach
Simulating a threat actor with limited internal knowledge or access, representing a scenario where a breach has already occurred or insider-level access is assumed.
Gray box adversary emulation, often referred to as an assumed breach exercise, starts with the red team positioned inside the network or with basic credentials, mimicking a threat actor post-initial access.
The focus shifts from perimeter compromise to actions like privilege escalation, lateral movement, data access, and detection evasion across hybrid environments.
This approach helps validate internal defenses, response capabilities, and the organization’s resilience against post-compromise tactics used by advanced persistent threats.
Our Process
Follow these essential steps to safeguard your organization from malicious hackers.
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Contact our team, and we'll attentively address your concerns while tailoring solutions to your specific security requirements. Whether you choose a phone call, email, or live chat, we're eager to kickstart your path to a better-protected organization.
Pre-Assessment Form
We provide you with an easy-to-complete pre-assessment form to gather relevant details. This allows us to gain insight into your organization's structure, existing security protocols, and particular areas of concern.
Proposal Meeting
Once we've analyzed the results of the preliminary evaluation questionnaire and developed our recommended plan, we'll go over the security strategy with you and address any questions during virtual or in-person meetings.
Agreement
We send you a detailed proposal outlining our findings, recommendations, and the cost of the project. Once you approve the proposal, we proceed with the engagement.
Pre-requisite Collection
We collect all the necessary information and documents required for the assessment. This includes the organization's source code, documentation, and any other relevant materials.
Breached Labs strengthened our overall security posture with their thorough penetration testing approach. Their expertise in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities was invaluable to our organization.
Chief Information Officer
Fortune 500 Tech Company
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