Red Teaming
Your locks, your firewalls, your people — we test them the way a real adversary would.
The problem
Penetration tests check boxes. Red teams find the gaps that matter.
Most organisations test their security in silos — a network scan here, a physical audit there. The results look reassuring on paper, but they never answer the question that keeps leadership awake: what happens when a determined adversary targets us for real?
HAWK red teams answer that question. We combine physical intrusion operators and offensive cyber specialists under a single command, running coordinated campaigns that mirror how real threat actors work — across your perimeter, your network, and your people simultaneously.
Every engagement starts with real reconnaissance — the same OSINT, physical surveillance, and dark-web research a motivated attacker would conduct. We don't use templates. We build bespoke attack plans based on your actual threat landscape.
Operations are controlled, time-boxed, and run under strict rules of engagement agreed with your security leadership. But within those boundaries, our teams operate with the creativity and persistence of a real adversary — because that's the only way to find what matters.
Every engagement ends with an executive war-room debrief, timestamped evidence packs, and a prioritised remediation roadmap your team can act on immediately — not a 200-page PDF that collects dust.
Scope a red team →Recon & threat modelling
OSINT, dark-web sweeps, physical surveillance, and site casing — all mapped to the adversary profiles most relevant to your organisation.
Coordinated multi-vector ops
Physical entry teams, cyber operators, and social engineers working the same objective simultaneously — controlled by a single red-team lead.
Rules of engagement
Scope, boundaries, and escalation protocols agreed upfront with your security leadership. Full control without limiting operational realism.
War-room debrief
Timestamped evidence, impact narratives, and a remediation roadmap delivered face-to-face to leadership and the teams who need to fix it.
Two domains. One operation.
Real attackers don't respect the line between physical and digital. Neither do we.
Physical red teaming
Facility intrusion
Badge cloning, tailgating, lock bypass, and after-hours entry — testing access controls the way a motivated intruder would.
Surveillance & counter-surveillance
Covert observation of principals, residences, and travel routes to identify exposure points your protective detail may be missing.
Supply chain & delivery
Impersonating vendors, couriers, and contractors to test screening procedures, loading docks, and visitor management workflows.
Cyber red teaming
Social engineering
Spear phishing, voice spoofing, executive impersonation, and pretexting — targeting the human layer across every channel.
Network & application breach
Initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration — controlled, monitored, and mapped to real-world TTPs.
Device & comms compromise
Targeting personal devices, messaging apps, and communication infrastructure to test endpoint hardening and incident detection.
What you get back
Every operation produces actionable intelligence — not just a list of vulnerabilities.
- Timestamped evidence packs — photos, screen captures, and logs from every phase of the operation, proving exactly what was accessed and how.
- Attack path mapping — visual kill chains showing how physical and cyber vectors combined to reach your critical assets.
- Prioritised remediation roadmap — fixes ranked by impact and effort, mapped to responsible owners, not generic recommendations.
- Detection scoring — how quickly your team detected each phase, where alerts fired, and where the operation went unnoticed.
- Board-ready executive summary — a narrative briefing connecting operational findings to business risk in language leadership understands.
Safe & controlled
All operations run within agreed rules of engagement. No production systems damaged, no real data exfiltrated, no surprises outside the scope.
Purple team option
Run operations collaboratively with your internal security team to maximise learning and accelerate detection improvements in real time.
Retesting included
After remediation, we retest the specific attack paths that succeeded — confirming your fixes actually close the gaps we found.
Engagement styles
From a single-scenario sprint to a year-round adversary programme — scoped to your threat landscape.
Focused
Scenario sprint
- Single objective — physical or cyber
- Two-week operation with rapid debrief
- Actionable fixes mapped to owners
- Retest of exploited paths included
Campaign
Full-spectrum red team
- Physical + cyber operators on the same objective
- 4–6 week coordinated campaign
- Executive war-room debrief + remediation plan
- Detection scoring + purple team option
Embedded
Continuous adversary
- Quarterly operations with evolving objectives
- Integrated with Threat Visibility & Awareness
- Board-ready reporting + tabletop support
- Year-round adversary pressure testing
