Regulatory Red Team Exercises
Realistic cyberattack simulation across technology, people, and process, validating detection, incident response, and resilience under controlled adversarial conditions.
Penetration testing answers "are these assets vulnerable?". Red teaming answers a different and harder question: "if a capable adversary targeted us, would we see it, respond, and contain it before it became a business-impacting incident?". That question is what a regulator, an insurer, or a board ultimately wants answered.
Vantage Point runs CREST-approved red team operations across the full attack lifecycle, reconnaissance, initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exfiltration or impact, under strict Rules of Engagement that protect operations while keeping the test realistic.
Engagements align to MITRE ATT&CK so that activity, detections, and gaps can be mapped to a common framework defenders already use. Where required by a regulator or insurer, we structure engagements to meet all applicable compliance requirements.
What's at stake.
You will not stop attacks you cannot detect
Most organisations have a clear view of what controls they have deployed. Far fewer know how those controls behave under real adversary pressure, and which gaps an attacker would exploit.
Compliance is moving past component testing
Financial regulators globally, including in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the EU, are mandating threat-intelligence-led testing for systemically important institutions. The trend is one-way.
Insurance and M&A diligence ask different questions now
Cyber insurers and acquirers increasingly want evidence of operational defensive capability, not just policies. A red team report is what answers that question credibly.
What we test.
Full attack lifecycle
End-to-end testing across the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, built to mirror how real adversaries actually move through an environment.
- Reconnaissance and OSINT
- Initial access (phishing, supply chain, exposed services)
- Persistence and command-and-control
- Credential access and privilege escalation
- Lateral movement across networks and identities
- Exfiltration or simulated business impact
Scenario-based testing
Where time, scope, or risk tolerance preclude a full red team, we run scenario engagements starting from a defined assumed-breach position.
- Compromised SSO / identity provider
- Compromised cloud tenant or service account
- Compromised endpoint (typical workstation)
- Supply-chain compromise scenario
- Insider threat (malicious or compromised user)
Phishing / Social Engineering
People remain the most reliable initial-access vector in the real world, and the one that traditional vulnerability scanning never tests. We run targeted, written-Rules-of-Engagement campaigns that measure how an organisation actually responds when a credible attacker reaches into employee inboxes, phone lines, and meeting links. Engagements range from broad awareness simulations to highly tailored operations against named individuals, designed to stress-test detection, response, training, and downstream technical controls in a realistic and safe way.
- Mass and targeted phishing (general · spear · whaling)
- MFA-bypass phishing, reverse-proxy and session-token capture (Evilginx-class)
- Business email compromise (BEC) and executive impersonation
- Vishing (voice / phone) and smishing (SMS) where in scope
- Pretexting and tailored social engineering against named targets
Darkweb Leaks
Attackers do not usually guess passwords or session tokens, they buy them. Infostealer logs, criminal forums, paste sites, and Telegram leak channels are awash with corporate credentials, session cookies, and access tokens harvested from compromised personal devices, third-party breaches, and supply-chain incidents. Most organisations have no visibility into what is already exposed about them. Working with our intelligence partners, we surface those secrets and feed them into the engagement, so the red team operates with the same starting material a real attacker would, and you finally see what attackers have been seeing for months.
- Employee credential leaks across corporate email, SSO, and third-party SaaS
- Session cookies and authentication tokens from infostealer logs
- API keys, OAuth tokens, and secrets in paste sites and code dumps
- Mentions of your domain, brand, or executives in criminal forums
- Compromised customer or partner data exposing internal context
- Cross-referenced re-use of leaked passwords against current systems
What red team engagements typically expose.
Drawn from common categories our consultants surface across engagements of this type. Severity and prevalence vary by environment and maturity.
Detection coverage gaps
SIEM rules that flag noisy events but miss credential abuse, EDR catching commodity malware but blind to LOLBins (Living off the Land Binaries), no detection on cloud control-plane actions.
Identity-driven lateral movement
Domain user to domain admin in a handful of hops; service-account password reuse; cloud admin paths reachable from any compromised laptop.
Phishing resilience weaknesses
MFA bypass via consent phishing, session token theft via reverse proxies, BEC flows the technical team had not seen tested.
Response process breakdowns
Alerts firing but no on-call routing, escalation paths that depend on a single individual, incident-response runbooks last reviewed years ago.
Forgotten attack surface
Decommissioned-but-running services, exposed dev environments, legacy VPN gateways, abandoned cloud subscriptions still federated to identity.
Exfiltration paths
No DLP on encrypted egress channels, sanctioned SaaS used for staging, missing controls on personal cloud-storage uploads.
A structured, intelligence-led path through every engagement.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path through the Velocity platform, so quality, traceability, and reporting are consistent across teams.
Scoping
Define objectives, in-scope assets, Rules of Engagement, white-team contacts, abort criteria, and the threat profile the engagement should emulate.
Intelligence
Threat intelligence shapes who we emulate. We profile the adversaries most likely to target your industry and footprint, then test against their TTPs, not a generic playbook.
Execution
Controlled adversary emulation by CREST-accredited operators, low-and-slow against the agreed scope. Activity is logged and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK in real time so defender response can be measured precisely.
Reporting
Adversary narrative report with ATT&CK technique mapping, defender response gap analysis, cryptographically signed deliverable, executive summary, and a board-ready briefing.
Regulatory Acceptance
We make sure the report format, methodology, and evidence depth meet what your regulator or insurer expects, TIBER-EU, GL20 / AASE, MAS, central bank, so the deliverable is accepted, not just delivered.
Debrief
We walk your detection and response teams through the full engagement timeline, what we did, when we did it, where you saw us, and where you didn't. The output is a prioritised list of detection and process gaps to close, framed as actions your team can take rather than abstract findings.
Mapped to recognised baselines.
Reports built for audit, engineering, and executive review.
Every engagement produces verifiable, traceable, regulator-ready artefacts, generated by Velocity and signed cryptographically.
PDF · JSON · XML · CSV · Multi-Language Reporting Supported · CVSS 3.0 / 3.1 / 4.0
- Adversary narrative and timeline
- Per-finding ATT&CK technique mapping
- Detection / response gap analysis
- Cryptographically signed final report
- Executive summary and board-ready briefing
- Defender debrief with prioritised detection and response gaps
- Regulatory acceptance support for TIBER-EU, GL20 / AASE, MAS, and similar frameworks
Common buyer questions.
Who in our organisation needs to know about a red team engagement? +
A small "white team", usually CISO, head of detection, and an executive sponsor, is briefed on the engagement to authorise activity and act as escalation point. The wider security operations team is left blind so detection capability can be measured honestly.
What is the difference between red teaming and penetration testing? +
Penetration testing measures vulnerability in a defined scope. Red teaming measures detection and response across people, process, and technology, usually with much broader scope, longer duration, and intentionally low-and-slow activity.
Will you actually exfiltrate our data? +
No. Where exfiltration is in scope we use synthetic data or simulate the action with a marker file. Rules of Engagement explicitly forbid removing real client data from the environment.
How do you avoid operational disruption? +
Rules of Engagement define abort criteria, exclusion lists, and "ceasefire" conditions in advance. Our consultants pull back from any activity that risks operational impact, and the white team can call a halt at any point.
Can red teaming support TIBER-EU, FEER, GL20, or similar regulatory tests? +
Yes. We structure engagements to align with threat-intelligence-led testing frameworks where required by regulator, insurer, or board mandate. Scoping confirms specific framework alignment before engagement.
Test the way real adversaries operate.
Speak to a CREST-accredited red team lead about scoping a threat intelligence led red team or scenario-based engagement.