Red Team Testing.

Red Team Testing evaluates your organisation's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from real-world attacks across people, processes, and technology. 

A strategic approach to detecting vulnerabilities and training your blue team

The Missing Link’s Red Team Testing service simulates sophisticated threat actors targeting critical systems, credentials, and business assets. These controlled exercises validate your detection capabilities, escalation workflows, and incident response readiness.

Each engagement is designed around defined objectives, whether validating assumed breach scenarios or assessing specific attack paths. Your blue team operates in real time against our simulated adversary, providing measurable insight into response readiness and operational resilience.

At the conclusion of the exercise, you receive a comprehensive technical and executive report detailing attack pathways, detection gaps, response performance, and prioritised remediation actions.

Your partner in Red Team Testing

Our world-leading security experts will customise and implement a red team exercise to support your IT resource in its effort to meet your organisation’s security goals.

 

 

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Protect your organisation from the threat of an attack

Understand your security infrastructure vulnerabilities

The Missing Link’s security experts will mount a risk-free real-world attack to test your security posture.

Support your team with world-leading security advice

Benefit from the expertise of The Missing Link’s red teamers who have an unsurpassed knowledge of emerging international approaches to cyber attacks and hacking.

Understand the investment required to boost security infrastructure

Red teaming activities provide detailed evidence of vulnerabilities and required remediation for reporting to Boards, security strategising and budgeting.

Expert guidance to bolster security

Our highly-trained security consultants will provide detailed advice on how to bolster infrastructure and physical security controls to protect sensitive information.

FAQs

  • What is red team testing?

    Red team testing is a goal-driven adversary simulation designed to test how well your organisation can detect and respond to a real-world attack.

    Unlike traditional testing that focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, red team exercises simulate sophisticated threat actors targeting your critical systems, credentials and data.

    The Missing Link designs red team engagements to evaluate the effectiveness of your controls, monitoring and response processes across people, technology and physical environments.

  • How does a red team exercise work?

    A red team engagement begins with defining objectives such as gaining access to sensitive data or compromising privileged accounts.

    The Missing Link’s red team then simulates real-world attack techniques to achieve those objectives while your internal or external blue team attempts to detect and respond.

    The exercise concludes with a detailed assessment of detection gaps, response effectiveness, and resilience improvements.

  • What are the benefits of red team testing?

    Red team testing provides visibility into how your organisation performs under realistic attack conditions.

    It identifies weaknesses across security controls, monitoring capability, and incident response processes.

    The Missing Link delivers executive-level reporting and technical remediation guidance that helps justify investment decisions and strengthen long-term security maturity.

  • When should an organisation conduct red team testing?

    Red team testing is most valuable when organisations want to validate mature security programs, test incident response readiness, or prepare for regulatory or board-level scrutiny.

    It is particularly relevant for organisations in regulated industries or those managing sensitive data.

    The Missing Link tailors red team engagements to align with your security maturity, risk profile, and strategic objectives.

  • What is the difference between red teaming and penetration testing?

    Penetration testing focuses on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities within defined systems.

    Red teaming takes a broader, objective-based approach, simulating an advanced attacker attempting to achieve a specific business impact.

    The Missing Link’s red team exercises evaluate not just technical weaknesses but detection capability, escalation workflows, and overall organisational readiness.

  • What is the goal of a red team vs blue team exercise?

    A red vs blue team exercise measures how effectively your defensive team can detect, contain and respond to sophisticated attacks.

    The red team simulates the adversary, while the blue team defends using existing tools and processes.

    The Missing Link structures these exercises to provide measurable insights into response speed, communication effectiveness and security control gaps.

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Perfect Partner Experience

A Red Team engagement consists of many little battles, some won, some lost, and that’s when you start to appreciate what you do well, and what needs improvement. Importantly, the team at The Missing Link are incredibly skilled and 100% emotionally invested in the challenge. We know we will be tested, and we know that The Missing Link team will beat us several times along the way, and that’s great – we learn, and we don’t make the same mistake twice. The whole exercise is really a lot of fun.

A key benefit for us is it allows us to test the response of our other digital security vendors. It’s almost impossible to validate the ROI for most of these products without subjecting them to very thorough testing. The Red team exercises are brilliant, the IT team love the experience, and it raises their level of engagement. We’re really looking forward to the next exercise.

Hugo Evans | IT Security and Platforms Manager, Sparke Helmore Lawyers