Reasons to Hire a Red Team Assessor for the IT Infrastructure
Last Updated on June 9, 2025 by Narendra Sahoo Red
Red Team Assessment Services is an evaluation process designed to measure the effectiveness of security controls of an organization and how well can it withstand a real-world attack.
The assessment involves security professionals or independent ethical hackers performing attack simulations to objectively evaluate the organization’s cyber measures. As a CREST Approved organization, VISTA InfoSec ensures that our Red Team Assessments adhere to the highest global standards, providing reliable and actionable insights.
The operation aims at improving the preparedness of an organization through a realistic security incident drill that may be targeted towards your organization’s cyber, physical, and human security elements. Using various cyber-attack techniques the ethical hacker works towards finding weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology to gain unauthorized access to assets and determine areas that need improvement.
The assessment demonstrates how attackers can combine unrelated exploits to gain access to sensitive data and critical assets of an organization. The assessment is an effective way to demonstrate that even the most advanced and sophisticated technology can do little to prevent attacks that are targeted towards humans to gain access. However, the Red Team Assessment is designed to prepare organizations to handle such unexpected attacks on sensitive assets through technical, physical, and process-based means. Based on the assessment results, recommendations and plans are provided to strengthen the organization’s security posture.
We sit with your team to discuss, analyze, and define the objectives of performing a Red Team Assessment.
In collaboration with your team, we gather information relevant to the assessment goals before planning a staged attack.
At this stage, we identify the possible vulnerabilities on the target network.
Once the potential vulnerabilities are identified, we assess to verify the same through an active intrusion attempt.
Once we gain access to a system, we inject agents to see if we can successfully maintain access to the system for a long time, irrespective of reboots, reset, or modified by the network administrator.
We conduct a complete analysis of vulnerabilities that were identified, exploited, and sensitive data that were accessed. We further analyze the amount of time we maintained access in the system and for the tenure it was undetected.
The results of the assessment are compiled into a report detailing a summary of the test, vulnerabilities, risks detected, recommendations for bridging the GAP, and suggestions for better security.
Once vulnerabilities are identified and remediated, we run a re-test on the system to ensure that fixes were successfully implemented and determine any new vulnerabilities that could be detected due to remediation.
Organizations with mature security programs such as banks, fintechs, SaaS companies, and critical infrastructure providers need Red Team Assessments to validate their ability to detect and respond to real cyberattacks.
Penetration Testing identifies technical vulnerabilities, while a Red Team Assessment tests people, processes, and technology through realistic, multi-layered attack simulations.
It should be performed annually or after major changes in systems, policies, or infrastructure to ensure defenses remain effective.
It provides a realistic view of cyber readiness, improves detection and response capabilities, and strengthens the overall security posture.
Common techniques include phishing, social engineering, network exploitation, physical intrusion, and privilege escalation to simulate real-world attackers.
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