Red Teaming
Find what an adversary would find, before they do.
A red team is not a scan. It is a controlled adversary: people who plan and move the way a real one would, across every door into your world at once: the network, the building, and the people who hold the keys.
Ashenden runs converged operations, not siloed tests. Where most firms check the cyber and the physical separately, our operators work a single objective together, a spear-phish that yields a badge, a tailgate that reaches a server room, because that is how real breaches actually unfold.
Everything is agreed in advance and evidenced as it happens. You receive not a list of findings but a map: how far an adversary reached, how they got there, what your people saw, and the shortest route to closing it.
Held to one standard, end to end.
Reconnaissance & threat modelling
OSINT, dark-web sweeps, and physical surveillance to build the same picture an adversary would.
Converged multi-vector operations
Cyber operators, physical entry, and social engineers working one objective, simultaneously.
Agreed rules of engagement
Scope, boundaries and escalation set with you before anyone moves.
Timestamped evidence
Photographs, screens and logs proving exactly what was reached, and how.
Prioritised remediation roadmap
Fixes ranked by impact and effort, mapped to owners, with a re-test after.
Detection scoring
How quickly your people noticed each phase, and where the alerts should have fired.
- Organisations that want their gaps found on their terms
- Principals concerned about physical and cyber convergence
- Boards seeking assurance before an incident forces it
- Regulated firms with high-value assets
- How is red teaming different from a penetration test?
- A penetration test checks a defined system for known weaknesses. A red team emulates a real adversary against a real objective, using whatever path works, technical, physical or human, and is measured on how far it reaches, not how many findings it lists.
- Is it safe to run against a live environment?
- Yes. Every operation runs to rules of engagement agreed with you, scope, boundaries and escalation, so realism never comes at the cost of control. Sensitive actions are coordinated with a named contact throughout.
- Do you test physical sites as well as networks?
- Yes: that is the point. Facility intrusion, surveillance and social engineering run alongside the cyber operation, because an adversary does not respect the line between them.
- What do we get at the end?
- A board-ready narrative, timestamped evidence, mapped attack paths, detection scoring, and a prioritised remediation plan, followed by a re-test of the paths you close.
Speak to us, in confidence.
Tell us what you are weighing up. The first conversation is private and unhurried, with the people who would actually hold the work, not a sales desk.