Secolve’s adversary simulation and cyber resilience exercises proactively evaluate an organisation’s security posture through realistic attack scenarios and collaborative readiness assessments. These structured engagements enable identification of vulnerabilities, validation of detection and response capabilities, and strengthen organisational resilience against evolving cyber threats.
The services range from sophisticated adversarial threat simulations (Red Teaming), interactive attack and defence validations (Purple Teaming), to strategic cyber incident response rehearsals (Gold Teaming), empowering organisations to effectively manage and mitigate cybersecurity risks.
Secolve’s red teaming engagements deliver realistic adversarial simulations designed to rigorously test an organisation’s cyber security defences, detection capabilities, and response mechanisms. Utilising industry-recognised frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, red team assessments emulate genuine attacker behaviours across network infrastructure, web applications, endpoints, cloud environments, and physical perimeters. Activities include initial compromise, lateral movement, privilege escalation, persistence, and data exfiltration attempts. Additionally, attack replay techniques are employed, allowing organisations to validate and refine detection and mitigation strategies against known adversarial scenarios.
Purple teaming involves a collaborative, integrated approach, bringing together offensive (Red) and defensive (Blue) teams to rapidly improve an organisation’s cyber security posture. Secolve facilitates interactive sessions where real-time attack emulation, replay of specific attack scenarios, and immediate defensive response validation occur simultaneously. This approach encourages knowledge transfer, clarifies security control effectiveness, accelerates remediation of security gaps, and optimises detection engineering and alert tuning, leading to continuous improvement and measurable security enhancements.
Gold teaming focuses on strategic-level scenario-based exercises aimed at testing and improving organisational decision-making, incident response coordination, communication effectiveness, and overall cyber resilience. Secolve designs and facilitates tailored tabletop exercises involving executive leaders, operational staff, technical teams, and relevant stakeholders. These exercises simulate realistic cyber incidents or crises, allowing participants to rehearse roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and governance processes in a controlled environment. Outcomes include clearer identification of response gaps, increased executive awareness, refined incident response playbooks, and enhanced organisational preparedness.
Secolve’s social engineering assessments evaluate an organisation’s human-factor vulnerabilities by simulating realistic attacks, including advanced phishing, spear-phishing, vishing (voice phishing), pretexting, and physical access attempts. Unlike standard phishing exercises that require domain whitelisting, our advanced phishing simulations closely replicate real-world email delivery mechanisms, ensuring bypass of modern email security controls and sandboxing solutions to directly reach recipients’ inboxes. Assessments can also include scenarios designed to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), evaluating user susceptibility and response effectiveness against sophisticated credential-harvesting techniques. These exercises deliver actionable insights into staff resilience, effectiveness of security awareness training, and targeted recommendations for improving organisational defences against social engineering threats.
Physical security assessments for operational technology (OT) environments evaluate an organisation’s resilience against unauthorised physical access and manipulation of critical operational assets. Assessments simulate targeted scenarios such as covert entry into secure areas (e.g., substations, control rooms), tampering with field devices and controllers, manipulation of Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) and PLCs, access badge cloning, and exploitation of inadequate physical barriers or surveillance systems. These exercises specifically identify vulnerabilities impacting OT systems, assess the effectiveness of security controls around sensitive operational infrastructure, and validate staff compliance with established access protocols.
