Attack Simulations: Red & Purple Teaming

Complex Attack Simulations, Battle-Tested Experts.

Advanced Attack Simulation: Illuminating Vulnerabilities

What We Know:
Organizations invest heavily in security controls.


What We Don’t Always Know:

How effective are these controls?


What We Prefer Not to Consider:
What if they aren’t very effective?


How Can We Find Out for Sure?

The good news is that advanced offensive security testing reveals exploitable vulnerabilities before a hacker does.

 

Visibily’s Attack Simulation assesses your actual resilience against various cyber threats—such as cybercriminals, nation-states, competitors, and hacktivists. It ensures your security posture aligns with business objectives and equips your purple team to detect, prevent, and respond to attacks effectively.

What is a Cyber Attack Simulation?

A cyber attack simulation involves an organization, along with its security partners, simulating a real-world hacking attempt on its own network, infrastructure, and assets. This is done using the tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) commonly employed by cybercriminals. Ideally, these exercises are carried out by a "purple team," which is a collaboration between defensive (blue) and offensive (red) teams.


The primary objective is to identify vulnerabilities within the organization’s defenses, allowing the security team to address them and minimize the risk of actual cyberattacks.

How Visibily's Cyber Attack Simulation Works

Our attack simulation mirrors the actions of an advanced threat actor, conducting covert, goal-driven attempts to compromise high-value targets. It exposes real-world threats across the entire attack surface—logical, physical, and social—through social engineering, covert penetration testing, physical security bypass, and subversion techniques.


We simulate a hacker’s tactics using deception and misdirection, identifying weaknesses, exploiting critical systems, and "stealing" data by mimicking a real breach.

These opportunistic, blended attack sequences combine social engineering, physical security breaches, network intrusions, and application exploits, replicating the threats encountered in the wild every day.


A cyber attack simulation demonstrates the potential impact of a breach on an organization, including its board and executive team. The debrief outlines actual attack paths and points of compromise—whether in policies, procedures, or hardware.

Your organization gains clear insights into strengths and weaknesses, equipped with the knowledge to refine security spending and develop key performance indicators (KPIs).

How Our Red & Purple Teams Do It

  • Open-source intel (OSINT)

    Open-source intel (OSINT) retrieves publicly available contact information (phone, email) and performs initial recon on public website exposure, identifying sites that may enable remote access (e.g. Citrix, VPN), portals, webmail apps, etc. Public company/employee info is used during discovery and planning, shaping realistic attack scenarios and informing measurable results.

  • Attack scenarios

    Focus on the point of exploitation (using data obtained during discovery to breach the organization’s logical controls). An attack simulation makes use of available opportunistic tactics to mimic a real-world cyber attack, with the result being a breach of logical, social and/or physical security (depending on the required level of access).

  • Findings and recommendations

    Translate scenario results, articulating vulnerabilities surfaced by the simulation. Analytics and recommendations help the client understand how best to mitigate identified risks.

The essential ingredient is collaboration. From the initial kickoff to the final debrief, we partner closely with you to grasp the challenges specific to your unique business, technical, and cultural landscape. While we can perform impressive hacks, the true value of our partnership lies in the knowledge you gain and the self-reliance you develop long after our engagement concludes.

Attack Simulation Methodology:

Threat Intelligence


  • Planning and Requirements
  • Collection
  • Analysis and Production
  • Discussion and Integration

Threat Modeling


  • Determine Assets
  • Understand Threat Agents
  • Derive Position/Relevance
  • Build Strategy
  • Operationalize
  • Monitor and Adapt

Purple Team


  • Information Profiling
  • Discovery (Passive/Active)
  • Solicitation
  • Exploitation/Post-Exploitation
  • Covert/Surreptitious Actions
  • Attack Chain Analysis

Why Clients Choose Visibily.

Expertise

With several skilled and experienced client managers and security professionals, we deliver exceptional results through in-depth applied research that tackles complex, real-world cybersecurity challenges.


Industry Leadership

We don’t just adhere to best practices; we establish them. Our security programs are tailored to align with your organization’s unique business, technical, and cultural dynamics.


You-Centric Culture

Our clients represent our achievements. Security is a team sport, and we all strive to serve the greater good. Your success is our success, and ultimately, it benefits everyone.


Tested Methodologies

The adversaries constantly innovate, and so do we. Our strategies and techniques improve with every engagement. Security methodology is not a static concept; it’s an iterative process.

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