Red teams are a necessary evil – literally – in today’s cyber threat landscape. Motivations for engaging in offensive testing activities can vary from regulatory requirements to certification aspirations. Truly proactive and progressive security programs incorporate offensive operations almost immediately as security is built and defined.
Most organizations start with vulnerability scanning and then move into penetration testing (pentesting), taking the vulnerability scan one step farther from guessing a vulnerability could be exploited to proving exactly how it can be. Red team programs are often, incorrectly, synonymously associated with pentesting, but it is a very different function.
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