Red teaming is a full-scope, goal-driven adversary simulation. It does not chase every vulnerability the way a penetration test does. It proves whether a determined attacker can reach an objective that matters to your business, and how quickly your team detects and responds when they try. We test across people, process and technology, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Leading security experts run the campaign with our own, on-prem AI agent for speed and coverage, and your data never leaves our network.
We agree on the crown jewels first — domain admin, a payment system, customer PII, a trading platform — then work backward like a real adversary. Success is measured against that goal, not a count of findings.
A real intrusion does not stop at the network edge. Engagements can combine external compromise, phishing and social engineering, physical access where in scope, and lateral movement across your internal estate to mirror a genuine attack chain.
The blue team is the real subject. We measure mean time to detect and respond, validate which techniques your SOC and tooling catch, and surface the gaps where an attacker would have moved unseen.
Every action — initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, exfiltration — is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK so you get a clear, framework-aligned picture of coverage and blind spots.
You receive a full attack narrative, the techniques used, evidence and working proof-of-concept, CVSS-scored findings, and prioritized remediation. Every issue is human-verified and signed off by a named expert, not a model.
Red teaming rewards both reach and judgment, which is why we run it augmented. Our own AI agent enumerates the external and internal attack surface, correlates tooling, drafts candidate attack paths and maps observed techniques to MITRE ATT&CK at machine speed — clearing the slow reconnaissance that usually eats a campaign's clock. Our leading security experts then do what no model can: read your defenders, chain business-logic and trust-relationship flaws, time actions to test detection, and decide when to go loud and when to stay quiet. The agent gives coverage and pace; the human supplies the creativity, restraint and accountability that make an adversary simulation realistic. The agent runs on infrastructure we own and certify, so prompts, evidence and your crown-jewel data stay sovereign throughout.
A penetration test aims for breadth — find and verify as many real vulnerabilities as possible in a defined target within the time-box. Red teaming is goal-driven and covert: a single objective, full scope across people, process and technology, with your detection and response capability as the real subject under test. If you want to know what is broken in an application or network, start with a penetration test. If you have a mature security program and want to know whether your SOC would actually catch a determined attacker, red teaming is the right exercise. Many clients run penetration tests first and graduate to red teaming once their controls mature.
Most engagements run several weeks, depending on scope and the objective. The typical flow is: scoping and rules of engagement; reconnaissance and weaponization; initial access; establishing foothold and persistence; privilege escalation and lateral movement toward the objective; then a debrief and verified report. Covert, low-and-slow campaigns that test detection over time take longer than a focused assumed-breach scenario. We agree the timeline and any deconfliction process with you before any activity begins.
Engagements are structured around MITRE ATT&CK, so every technique we use maps to a recognized framework and your coverage gaps are easy to reason about. Methodology also draws on established adversary-emulation practice, including TIBER-EU style threat-led testing where relevant. MAYASEVEN operates under ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015, and our team's pedigree includes the Attack & Defense World Champion title at the International Cybersecurity Championship 2023 in San Diego.
No. We built our own local LLM and pentest agent and run them on-prem, so prompts, findings, evidence and any sensitive data stay inside infrastructure we own and certify — nothing is sent to third-party model APIs. Rules of engagement, a deconfliction channel and agreed safe-words are set before we begin, so production stability and your team's awareness are managed throughout. MAYASEVEN is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.
Talk to MAYASEVEN to scope the work and get a quote — a lead expert replies within one business day.