Kratos Red Team Services
Test Your Security and Your Response Team with Red Teaming Expertise
What We Do
At Kratos, our Red Team services replicate the tactics, techniques, and behaviors of real-world cyber adversaries to uncover security weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Our operators conduct realistic, full-spectrum adversary simulations designed to test not just technology, but the people and processes that defend your organization.
We simulate sophisticated attack scenarios that target your networks, applications, employees, and even physical access points, mirroring how determined threat actors move through modern environments. These engagements are designed to challenge detection capabilities, expose hidden vulnerabilities, and evaluate how effectively your teams can respond under real-world conditions.
Every operation is carefully planned and executed under strict safety, deconfliction, and non-disruption protocols. Our goal is to push defenses to their limits, while ensuring testing remains controlled, transparent, and safe for production systems.
The result is actionable insight that strengthens your organization’s ability to detect, respond to, and stop advanced threats before they become real incidents.
The Value of Red Team Operations
Red Team operations provide organizations with a realistic assessment of how their defenses perform against determined adversaries. We measure not only whether an attack succeeds, but whether it is detected, investigated, and contained in time. Our engagements uncover detection gaps, highlight blind spots in monitoring, and provide actionable insight into how security teams can improve response effectiveness.
Uncover Hidden Vulnerabilities
Identify weaknesses across technology, processes, and human factors before real adversaries have the opportunity to exploit them.
Test Detection and Response in Realistic Conditions
Evaluate how effectively your security teams detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated attack techniques under real-world conditions.
Strengthen Blue Team Capabilities
Give defenders hands-on experience against skilled adversaries, helping teams refine detection strategies and improve incident response procedures.
Drive Measurable Security Improvement
Use adversary simulation to identify gaps, validate remediation efforts, and continuously improve overall security maturity.
Validate Organizational Resilience
Assess your organization’s ability to detect, contain, and recover from advanced threats across multiple environments and attack paths.
Threat Actor Emulation
We emulate real-world threat actors using MITRE ATT&CK–aligned methodologies, tailoring our operations to your organization’s unique sector. By modeling attacks on intelligence-informed adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) from nation-state and sophisticated criminal groups, we help you see your defenses through the eyes of a determined attacker.
Attack Scenarios
Kratos Red Team experts design and execute realistic attack scenarios that mirror the methods used by modern threat actors. Each engagement evaluates how an adversary could gain initial access, move through internal systems, and achieve high-value objectives within your environment.
Our simulations examine multiple attack paths, such as misuse of legitimate credentials, insider threats, compromised remote access services, and weaknesses in physical security controls. From there, our operators replicate the techniques attackers use to establish persistence, escalate privileges, move laterally across networks, and access sensitive systems or data.
These controlled adversary simulations allow organizations to observe how well security controls, monitoring tools, and response procedures perform under realistic conditions. The result is a clear understanding of where defenses succeed, where detection gaps exist, and where improvements can strengthen overall resilience.
All testing is conducted using carefully planned scenarios and strict operational safeguards to ensure realistic evaluation without exposing sensitive operational details or disrupting business operations.
Our Short-term Engagement Process
Designed for organizations that need to meet regulatory or compliance-driven adversary simulation requirements, including FedRAMP Rev. 5, NIST SP 800-172, TIBER-EU, CBEST, and DORA.
- Scenario Planning: We collaborate with stakeholders to develop realistic attack scenarios modeled on Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity and aligned with risks relevant to your organization’s industry and environment.
- Red Team Test Plan (RTTP): A formal test plan is developed outlining engagement objectives, scope, timelines, and the adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that will be used during the operation.
- Trusted Agent Coordination: A designated internal liaison acts as a trusted agent to coordinate activities, manage communication, and provide escalation support if required during testing.
- Red Team Execution: Our operators conduct a controlled adversary simulation, typically lasting 3–6 weeks replicating real attacker behavior to test security controls, detection capabilities, and response procedures.
- Red Team Test Report (RTTR): At the conclusion of the engagement, Kratos will deliver a comprehensive report detailing attack paths, security gaps, and prioritized recommendations to strengthen your organization’s defenses.
Our Sustained Engagement Process
Designed for security-focused organizations that want to establish a long-term adversary simulation program to continuously evaluate defenses, validate improvements, and strengthen organizational resilience.
- Annual Threat Modeling and Scenario Development: We analyze evolving cyber threats and develop new adversary scenarios aligned with your organization’s risk profile, industry threat landscape, and critical assets.
- Periodic Red Team Operations: Throughout the year, our operators conduct controlled adversary simulations targeting different environments, technologies, and attack vectors to continuously test defensive capabilities.
- Blue Team Collaboration: We work directly with your defensive teams to identify detection gaps, refine monitoring strategies, and validate the effectiveness of security controls in real-world scenarios.
- Continuous Security Validation: Previously identified weaknesses are retested to confirm remediation efforts and help ensure vulnerabilities do not reappear over time.
- Strategic Reporting and Program Metrics: Leadership receives clear reporting and performance metrics that track improvements in detection capability, response times, and overall security maturity across the program.
Area of Expertise
Kratos Red Team specialists bring deep expertise across the full spectrum of offensive security, enabling us to emulate sophisticated real-world adversaries and evaluate defenses across modern enterprise environments. We operate across DoW and intelligence sectors, aerospace and space systems, classified environments, and cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms. Our capabilities include adversary emulation, enterprise network and Active Directory compromise, cloud and hybrid infrastructure security, social engineering, and physical security assessments. By combining these disciplines, we simulate how attackers gain initial access, escalate privileges, move laterally through environments, and target critical assets, providing organizations with a comprehensive evaluation of their ability to detect, respond to, and defend against advanced threats.
Benefits of Red Teaming
End-to-End long Sustained Adversary Simulation Results
A Red Team engagement provides organizations with a realistic, end-to-end evaluation of how well their security defenses perform against determined adversaries. By simulating real-world attack techniques across networks, applications, users, and physical access points, a Red Team identifies hidden vulnerabilities, demonstrates how attackers could exploit them, and tests the effectiveness of detection and response capabilities. At the conclusion of the engagement, organizations receive detailed reporting that outlines the attack paths discovered, security gaps identified, and prioritized recommendations to strengthen defenses. The result is actionable insight that helps security teams improve monitoring, response procedures, and overall organizational resilience against advanced threats.