Advanced Testing: Red Team Assessment and Attack Simulation
Test the detection and response of your organisation against a realistic attack, performed by senior red team specialists.
Standard penetration testing evaluates the security of systems. Advanced testing evaluates the resilience of the organisation. Through red teaming, scenario-based exercises, and social engineering, Pentrox assesses technology, people, and processes together. These services provide leadership with clear insight into detection capabilities, response effectiveness, and decision-making under pressure.
Our Services
Beyond the perimeter, beyond the checklist.
Offensive techniques that go beyond standard penetration testing to evaluate your organisation under realistic threat conditions.
Mystery Guest
Physical security assessments through authorised access attempts, testing reception procedures, badge security, employee vigilance, and facility access controls.
Phishing Simulation
Controlled phishing campaigns that measure employee awareness, click rates, credential submission behaviour, and incident reporting across your organisation.
Red Teaming
Full-scope adversary simulation that tests detection, prevention, and response capabilities across multiple attack vectors through realistic, multi-stage campaigns.
Scenario Based Pentest
A predefined attack scenario executed by red team experts to validate whether specific attack paths can reach critical assets, with only selected contacts informed.
How Pentrox approaches adversary simulation
- Attack scenarios are designed collaboratively with the client to reflect their specific threat landscape.
- Execution is covert and multi-vector: network, application, social engineering, and physical access.
- Detection and response teams are not informed, ensuring real-life conditions during the exercise.
- All activities are performed within agreed boundaries in a non-destructive manner.
Standard Pentest vs Advanced Testing
Two approaches, different questions answered
A standard penetration test identifies technical vulnerabilities in defined systems. Advanced testing extends that scope to evaluate how your organisation detects, responds to, and withstands realistic attack campaigns. Both are valuable. The right choice depends on the question you need answered.
Standard Pentest
- Answers: where are the technical vulnerabilities in this system?
- Assesses defined technical targets within an agreed scope
- Conducted in a transparent, time-boxed testing window
- Measures the security posture of applications and infrastructure
- Delivers a prioritised findings report with remediation guidance
Advanced Testing
- Answers: can a realistic attacker reach our critical assets?
- Extends across technology, people, and processes as an integrated target
- Executed covertly, driven by adversary tactics and objectives
- Measures detection capability, response effectiveness, and organisational resilience
- Delivers a strategic debrief with full attack narrative and lessons learned
A standard penetration test is the foundation of any security programme. Advanced testing builds on that foundation by validating whether your people and processes hold up when a determined adversary applies pressure. Organisations typically progress from regular pentesting to advanced testing as their security maturity grows.
What Leadership Receives
Strategic insight for leadership.
Advanced testing delivers outcomes that go beyond vulnerability lists, providing the strategic intelligence your organisation needs to strengthen its defences.
Strategic debrief
The full attack narrative.
A structured walkthrough of the full attack narrative, from initial access through objective completion, presented in business terms.
Detection gap analysis
What was missed, and why.
A clear assessment of which attack stages were detected, which were missed, and where monitoring and alerting require improvement.
Response evaluation
Performance under pressure.
An assessment of how the incident response team performed under realistic conditions, including escalation speed and containment decisions.
Resilience recommendations
Structural, not superficial.
Prioritised recommendations that address structural weaknesses in detection, response, and organisational coordination, not just individual vulnerabilities.
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