Stop Breaches Before They Start

The objective of our penetration tests is to assist the organization in understanding the full impact of a potential breach and evaluate how effective security controls work to protect the most critical assets. Our team of experts will work with you to design an engagement that will achieve the greatest impact on assessing your risk visibility into your environment. Our experience enables us to execute a methodology while also assuring testing is cost-effective and timely.

The difference in our penetration testing approach is that we focus on impact objective driven testing. Whether we are attempting to access sensitive information, breach security boundaries, or access management systems, you can be sure that our time is efficiently spent on comprehensively testing your organization's capability to protect critical assets.

Knowing what to expect from a red team engagement can be difficult since there are almost as many definitions of what “red teaming” means as there are companies that provide them. Our perspective of red teaming comes from our backgrounds, rooted in the adversarial analysis mindset to train, and improve detection and response capabilities.

The difference in our approach starts with focusing engagements first and foremost a training opportunity for detection and response capabilities. Whether using novel or well-known adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), our objective is to provide a realistic understanding of the true risk posed by an attack by advanced threat actors. We pride ourselves on building meaningful exercise objectives that help the organization close gaps in detection and investigation technology, processes, and staff training, and ensure our debrief provides the context needed to improve future response. We let you practice response against worst-case scenarios without the worst-case risk.

When an incident occurs, it can quickly escalate to a business crisis, leading to high-profile media attention, financial losses, operational disruption, increased regulatory scrutiny, and damage to customer loyalty and investor confidence. Having a cyber incident response plan is not enough—the plan must be understood and tested across the entire organization, including among business leaders.

Section 31’s Incident Response service has been designed to provide your organization with a cross-functional approach for improved communication between every function of your business for a faster, more efficient, coordinated, and aligned breach response. The Section 31 Services team has unrivaled expertise and skills, recruiting “the best of the best” from within the world of cybersecurity, incident response, forensics and operations to conduct IR work.

Our security experts act as cyber-criminals to approach each engagement to gain company information. To catch a cyber-criminal, you must think like a criminal. We start by threat modeling which identifies what information the criminal would need and what part of the network they would target to get it. Our security professionals then create a pretext (a scenario) to use in the execution of the "attack".

Social Engineering testing assesses your people, processes, and procedures via email phishing, telephone vishing, and onsite attempts to breach physical safeguards.

Purple Team exercises effectively and efficiently train and improve your people, processes, and technology. Red Teams and Blue Teams collaborate in a live, production environment; emulating a selected adversary that has the capability, intent, and opportunity to attack your organization. We execute emulation plans carefully constructed by our team of Cyber Threat Intelligence experts to faithfully represent relevant adversaries and how they would behave on your network.

Purple Team exercises are ‘hands-on keyboard’ exercises where Red and Blue teams work together with an open discussion about each attack procedure. We don't just execute an attack and leave you to figure it out; we directly educate and assist you to detect, alert, and respond against it.

Our security experts have led large-scale vulnerability assessments and network redesigns; researched, evaluated, and discovered vulnerabilities; and developed technical solutions to resolve them.

Compliance mandates frequently become significant disruptions for many organizations; absorbing critical resources like time, money, and personnel. Our security experts are certified and experienced in many industry security mandates and take the guesswork out of compliance. Our security consulting services provide your organization with a streamlined path to accurate and complete compliance.