Simulating sophisticated attacks to test, measure, and improve risk detection and incident response
Even organizations with strong security controls and processes may not be able to detect and contain a breach quickly. The only way to truly understand and address gaps in defensive strategy is by simulating the latest attack techniques against your own security program.
With customized red teaming, purple teaming, threat intelligence-based testing, and managed testing options, X-Force Red adversary simulation services can meet you where you are in your security journey.
Train against the same advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by attackers to test, measure, and improve your detection and response capabilities.
Red team engagements simulate advanced threat actors by operating stealthily, bypassing defenses, and uncovering gaps in your security strategy. These end‑to‑end exercises aim to compromise your organization and achieve predefined objectives, providing a clear view of your detection and response capabilities. Afterward, the team delivers a detailed report and reviews the full attack narrative with your blue team, along with actionable recommendations to close gaps and improve detection and response times.
With purple team engagements, our team creates and executes attack scenarios mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and your custom business objectives. Unlike red teaming, however, purple team engagements are conducted in close collaboration with your blue teams to validate manual and automated detections in the pursuit of those objectives, but not the subsequent response. Our team will work to evaluate your defensive controls, generating the data points needed to improve detection accuracy and coverage in your security stack.
Continuously identify and manage vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and process gaps to stay ahead of evolving threats with X-Force Red’s managed red team service. Whether building a new in-house capability or enhancing an existing one, this offering provides continuous testing, a dedicated “hacker-on-call,” and monthly sprints with reporting. This allows you to adjust objectives, retest fixes, and track security improvements over time.
Leveraging threat intelligence to craft tailored attack scenarios, X-Force Red can mimic the advanced persistent threat actors and high-profile attacks targeting your organization. Uncover and fix gaps in your incident response programs while satisfying requirements for DORA TLPT, TIBER-EU, and other threat intelligence-based testing frameworks.
This combined set of X-Force engagements blends a realistic AI‑driven attack simulation with an immersive crisis exercise for business leaders. It shows how fast frontier‑AI threats can escalate, reveals hidden weaknesses, tests how quickly your organization can respond, and prepares teams to make confident, high‑pressure decisions when incidents unfold far faster than traditional playbooks expect.
Testing AI models, applications, networks, hardware, and personnel to uncover and fix vulnerabilities.
Identify, prioritize and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities exposing your most important assets to cyber attackers.
The elite training that your business leaders need to improve your readiness to effectively respond to a breach.
Transform your business and manage risk with a global leader in cybersecurity, cloud and managed security services.