Red Teaming as a Service (RTaaS)

What is Red Teaming as a Service (RTaaS)?

Red Teaming as a Service (RTaaS) is an ongoing subscription in which Firesand’s experts simulate real-world cyberattacks against your organisation. This continuous testing exposes vulnerabilities across your people, processes, and technology, helping you understand how attackers could move through your environment, compromise data, or disrupt operations before a real breach occurs.

How does RTaaS differ from penetration testing?

Traditional penetration tests are time-bound and scoped around specific systems or applications. They provide valuable insights but rarely reflect how real adversaries behave: persistent, adaptive, and goal-driven.

RTaaS, on the other hand, runs continuously and mirrors real-world threat campaigns. Our specialists use advanced tactics that combine technical exploitation, social engineering (such as phishing and credential harvesting), and, when required, coordinated black-team exercises that simulate physical intrusion attempts. This broader, intelligence-led approach focuses on the true impact of a compromise, whether your security controls, monitoring, and response processes can detect, contain, and mitigate those threats in real time.

Our RTaaS Methodology

1. Scoping and Planning

We begin by defining engagement objectives, rules of engagement, and system boundaries. Threat simulations are tailored to your industry, operational environment, and risk appetite to ensure relevance and security throughout testing.

2. Threat Simulation

Our red team executes advanced, multi-vector attack scenarios that may include network and application exploitation, cloud and identity compromise, social engineering campaigns, and physical intrusion (black-team) testing. Using stealth and evasion techniques, our analysts mirror modern adversaries while maintaining strict safety controls to avoid business disruption.

3. Observation and Reporting

Throughout the engagement, Firesand assesses how your security measures — whether internal, managed, or hybrid — detect, respond, and recover from simulated attacks. Findings are delivered in a detailed technical report with evidence-based insights, supported by an executive summary that highlights detection gaps, risk exposure, and clear, prioritised remediation guidance.

4. Continuous Improvement

Our RTaaS service supports quarterly or continuous retesting, helping you measure progress, validate improvements, and stay ahead of emerging threats. Each exercise builds resilience through actionable insight and measurable security maturity over time.