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Assess any technology, architecture or platform using industry leading methodologies and attack techniques enhanced with threat intelligence.

Application Penetration Testing

Gain insight into how your application or API could be targeted and exploited in a data breach.

Application penetration testing enables and organisation to identify complex application layer vulnerabilities which could expose customer data or sensitive business processes. Modern applications are targeted from a variety of perspectives including unauthenticated, opportunistic adversaries seeking to compromise legitimate accounts or that of an insider threat seeking to abuse access to elevate their privileges.

Application penetration testing can include the full technology stack of web UI’s, API layers and application security controls to ensure full coverage. Our testing approach includes leading practice frameworks such as the OWASP Top 10.

Through our in-depth testing methodology in alignment with international leading practices, our customers can gain a deep understanding of control effectiveness and secure development. This includes authentication, authorisation, encryption, input validation, error handling and other application security controls from the OWASP framework.

Identify data breach risks, build secure application code.

Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Simulate real-world attacks on your networks, servers, and systems to expose and eliminate vulnerabilities.

Redshift’s Infrastructure Penetration Testing service assesses the security of your organisation’s core IT environment by simulating how adversaries would exploit weaknesses across your servers, databases, containerised workloads, and internal network services.

We emulate real-world threat actors attempting to gain initial access, escalate privileges, pivot laterally, and compromise critical systems. Our objective is to identify systemic vulnerabilities and configuration flaws before they can be weaponised by attackers.

Testing is performed from both external (internet-facing) and internal (post-compromise or insider threat) perspectives, covering:

Perimeter defenses, firewalls, VPN gateways, and remote access services
Internal segmentation, trust boundaries, and lateral movement resistance
Linux and Windows servers — patching, services, and access controls
Container security — misconfigurations, breakout paths, and runtime exposure
Database systems — access controls, credential management, and injection flaws
Active Directory architecture — privilege escalation, delegation abuse, and credential theft
Detection evasion and endpoint security bypass techniques

Our testing approach is aligned with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP and NIST SP 800-115.

Defend against Insider Threats. Reduce attack surface.

Vulnerability Assessment

Proactively identify and manage security weaknesses before adversaries exploit them.

Our vulnerability scanning service provides automated, high-frequency assessments of your IT infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments to detect known security flaws, misconfigurations, and outdated software versions.

Unlike penetration testing, which simulates real-world attacks to uncover complex, chained exploits, vulnerability scanning is designed to surface a broad range of common issues efficiently and at scale, making it an essential component of ongoing risk management and compliance readiness.

Redshift Cyber Security leverages industry-leading scanning engines, aligned with international standards such as OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, and CVSS, to deliver actionable insights across:

Internal and external networks
Web applications and APIs
Cloud assets and virtual infrastructure
Operating systems and third-party software

Each scan is followed by expert analysis and a prioritised report of vulnerabilities by criticality, provides context on exploitability, and outlines remediation guidance, empowering your teams to respond effectively and maintain a hardened security posture.

Ensure continuous visibility. Reduce attack surface. Meet compliance goals.

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Mobile App Penetration Testing

Reveal hidden risks in your mobile app ecosystem before they can be exploited.

Our mobile application penetration testing service is designed to identify security flaws across Android and iOS platforms, assessing how your app, backend APIs, and associated infrastructure could be leveraged in real-world attacks.

Mobile apps present a unique attack surface, often blending user-facing functionality, local data storage, and remote service calls. Through simulated adversarial testing, Redshift uncovers vulnerabilities that may result from insecure code, weak encryption, improper session handling, or misconfigured mobile platform permissions.

Testing is aligned with the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) and includes analysis of:

Local data storage and caching
API communications and encryption
Authentication and session management
Reverse engineering and code obfuscation
Platform-specific security controls and permissions
Jailbreak/root detection and anti-tampering mechanisms

Our assessments cover both static and dynamic analysis to evaluate your mobile app’s behavior at runtime and in rest states.

Secure your mobile presence. Build user trust. Stay ahead of mobile threats.

Cloud Penetration Testing

Redshift’s cloud penetration testing service simulates real-world attack scenarios against your cloud infrastructure, whether in AWS, Azure, or GCP , to identify exploitable weaknesses that could lead to data breaches, lateral movement, or service disruption.

Cloud environments are dynamic, complex, and often misconfigured. Our testing approach goes beyond automated tools, leveraging deep adversarial techniques to assess identity and access management (IAM), network segmentation, storage exposures, serverless functions, and cloud-native applications.

Testing is conducted in alignment with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP Cloud-Native Application Security Top 10, and CIS Benchmarks, and includes:

Identity and access misconfigurations (IAM roles, privilege escalation)
Insecure API endpoints and exposed management consoles
Misconfigured storage buckets and data exposures
Network access paths and segmentation flaws
Enumeration of serverless, container, and VM-based workloads
Post-exploitation simulations and lateral movement attempts

Harden your cloud. Simulate real threats. Validate your controls.

Wi-Fi Penetration Testing

Identify and eliminate wireless attack vectors that could be exploited to breach your internal network.

Redshift’s Wi-Fi penetration testing service simulates real-world attacks against your wireless infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities in access points, encryption protocols, and authentication mechanisms. Wireless networks are often the weakest entry point into an organisation, making them a high-priority target for adversaries.

Our testing replicates tactics used by threat actors, including rogue access point creation, de-authentication attacks, WPA/WPA2 cracking, and lateral movement from compromised wireless clients to internal systems.

Assessments are aligned with OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and industry standards for wireless security (e.g. WPA2/3, 802.1X, EAP methods), and include:

Discovery and enumeration of all wireless networks (SSID and hidden SSID)
Assessment of encryption and authentication protocols
Rogue access point and Evil Twin attack simulation
Credential harvesting and session hijacking attempts
Lateral movement from wireless to internal LAN
Review of segmentation between guest and corporate networks

Secure Wi-Fi networks. Prevent unauthorised access. Protect your internal environment.

Threat Modelling

Anticipate the attacker’s movement. Design systems with security built-in from day one.

Redshift’s Threat Modeling service enables organisations to proactively identify potential attack vectors, system weaknesses, and trust boundaries across applications, infrastructure, and business workflows, before code is written or deployed.

Threat modelling is a strategic security activity that empowers development, architecture, and security teams to collaboratively visualise how an adversary might compromise a system, and to embed security controls where they matter most.

Using frameworks such as STRIDE, the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and Redshift’s own attack path mapping tools, and we guide clients through a structured approach to:

Define the system architecture and trust boundaries
Identify assets, actors, data flows, and entry points
Discover potential threats and abuse cases
Map those threats to real-world adversary behaviours
Recommend countermeasures and design mitigations

This service is particularly valuable during early-stage design, cloud migration, application development, and security architecture reviews.

Deliverables include attack surface maps, prioritised threat scenarios, risk ratings, and actionable recommendations, empowering you to shift security left and reduce costly fixes later in the development lifecycle.

Build secure by design. Think like an adversary. Strengthen your architecture.

Cyber Wargaming

Simulate real-world cyber attacks to test your team’s readiness.

Redshift’s Cyber Wargaming service delivers immersive, scenario-driven exercises that simulate sophisticated cyber attacks targeting your organisation’s systems, personnel, and decision-making processes. Designed to go beyond tabletop exercises, cyber wargames test both technical defenses and human response under pressure.

These simulations are aligned to real-world threat actor tactics, using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST SP 800-61, and ISO 27035, and can be customised to focus on scenarios such as:

Ransomware outbreaks
Insider threats
Cloud account compromise
Business Email Compromise (BEC)
Advanced persistent threat (APT) lateral movement
Crisis communications and regulatory breach notification

Redshift facilitates the entire engagement, including scenario development, live facilitation, technical injects, and post-exercise reporting. We evaluate:

Decision-making and chain of command under stress
Detection and response capabilities of SOC and IR teams
Cross-functional coordination between IT, legal, PR, and leadership
Playbook effectiveness and gaps in documentation
Strategic and operational resilience

Outcomes include a detailed after-action report highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements across people, process, and technology.

Stress-test your incident response. Improve coordination. Build cyber resilience through experience.

Red Team

Simulate a determined adversary. Measure your true ability to detect, respond, and contain threats.

Redshift’s Red Teaming service delivers a covert, goal-oriented simulation of a real-world attacker targeting your organisation’s most critical assets. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which identifies vulnerabilities in isolation, red team engagements assess your entire security posture, from initial compromise to lateral movement and data exfiltration.

We emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of advanced threat actors using the MITRE ATT&CK framework and intelligence-driven scenarios tailored to your threat landscape. Redshift’s red team may blend phishing, physical intrusion, wireless compromise, cloud exploitation, or custom malware to achieve agreed-upon objectives without prior knowledge granted to blue team defenders.

Our red team exercises are designed to test:

People – social engineering susceptibility, incident response effectiveness
Process – detection, triage, escalation, and playbook execution
Technology – EDR, SIEM, firewall, and endpoint defense effectiveness

Engagements are coordinated with clearly defined rules of engagement (ROE) and are followed by a detailed debrief and purple team collaboration, where we work directly with your defenders to replay attacks, share indicators of compromise, and strengthen detection and response capabilities.

Think like the enemy. Test your defenses. Evolve your response.

Managed Services

Enhance your security posture with our end-to-end managed cybersecurity solutions. Our services include proactive threat hunting, 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitoring, EDR platform management, and actionable threat intelligence.

Threat Hunting

Proactively search for threats hiding in your environment—before they cause damage.

Redshift’s Threat Hunting service uncovers stealthy, persistent adversaries operating within your systems by proactively investigating signs of compromise, suspicious behavior, and indicators that may bypass traditional security controls.

Unlike automated detection systems, threat hunting is an intelligence-led, hypothesis-driven activity carried out by experienced analysts who combine telemetry data, behavioral analytics, and adversary TTPs to identify hidden threats across endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, and user activity.

Using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, Sigma, and YARA, we perform targeted hunts for:

Lateral movement, privilege escalation, and credential abuse
Beaconing to command-and-control infrastructure
Fileless malware and in-memory persistence techniques
Suspicious PowerShell, WMI, or remote desktop activity
Insider threat behaviors and anomalous access patterns
Previously undetected indicators of compromise (IOCs)

Our threat hunting operations are supported by your EDR, SIEM, or XDR platforms, or we can deploy our own sensor stack for standalone visibility. Each engagement concludes with a detailed report, including findings, threat context, detection gaps, and tactical and strategic recommendations for improving your detection and response capabilities.

Don’t wait for an alert. Find the threat first.

Incident Response

Respond fast. Minimize damage. Regain control.

Redshift’s Incident Response service helps organisations rapidly contain, investigate, and recover from cybersecurity incidents, whether it’s a ransomware outbreak, data breach, insider threat, or business email compromise. Our expert responders work side-by-side with your internal teams to neutralize active threats, identify root causes, and restore normal operations with minimal disruption.

We follow proven methodologies aligned with NIST SP 800-61, ISO/IEC 27035, and MITRE ATT&CK, providing a structured and defensible response across all stages of the incident lifecycle:

Detection & Triage – Confirm and classify the incident using telemetry and forensic artifacts
Containment & Eradication – Isolate compromised systems and remove malicious access or tooling
Investigation – Perform root cause analysis, determine attacker TTPs, and map indicators of compromise (IOCs)
Recovery & Restoration – Safely return systems to operation, harden defenses, and validate clean environments
Reporting & Post-Incident Review – Deliver executive and technical reports, and facilitate lessons-learned sessions

Whether responding remotely or onsite, Redshift can also support incident-specific needs such as regulatory reporting (e.g. POPIA, GDPR, PCI DSS), legal and digital forensics, threat intelligence enrichment, and coordination with law enforcement or third parties.

When the breach happens, make your next move count.

Digital Forensics

Preserve and analyse evidence. Support legal and internal investigations with precision.

Redshift’s Digital Forensics service provides expert investigation and evidence recovery from compromised systems, user devices, cloud platforms, and digital storage, helping organisations identify what happened, how it happened, and who was responsible.

Whether following a cyber attack, insider threat, data leak, or policy violation, our forensic analysts apply industry-leading tools and methodologies to ensure evidence integrity, legal defensibility, and deep technical insight.

Aligned with standards such as NIST 800-86, ISO/IEC 27043, and ACPO guidelines for evidence handling, our forensic investigations include:

Disk and Memory Forensics – Recover deleted files, analyze drive artifacts, and inspect memory for malware
Network and Log Analysis – Trace lateral movement, data exfiltration, and command-and-control communications
Cloud and SaaS Forensics – Examine activity within Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS, and other cloud services
Mobile Device Analysis – Investigate messaging, location history, app usage, and mobile threat indicators
Insider Threat and HR Investigations – Examine user behavior, file access, and potential policy violations
Email and Communication Review – Retrieve and analyze suspicious email activity, BEC attempts, or insider leaks

When compromise occurs, facts matter. Redshift delivers digital clarity in times of crisis.

Security Platform Management

Maximise your EDR investment. Detect threats faster. Respond with confidence.

Redshift’s Security Platform Management service provides expert administration, tuning, and ongoing optimisation of your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution, ensuring it delivers accurate, actionable insights and rapid response capabilities across your organisation.

Modern EDR platforms offer powerful threat detection and response capabilities, but without the right configuration, integration, and monitoring, organisations often face alert fatigue, blind spots, and delayed response times. Our service bridges that gap by managing your EDR solution end-to-end, aligning it with your threat profile and operational requirements.

Key service elements include:

Policy and Sensor Configuration – Tailored deployment across diverse environments (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Threat Detection Tuning – Reduce false positives, enrich alerts with threat intel, and map to MITRE ATT&CK
24/7 Monitoring and Alert Triage – Investigate and validate suspicious activity in real-time
Response and Containment – Remote isolation, script execution, and threat neutralisation
Threat Intelligence Integration – Custom IOCs, hunting queries, and behavior-based rules
Reporting and Metrics – Executive dashboards, KPI tracking, and recommendations for continuous improvement

Whether as a fully managed service or in co-managed mode with your internal SOC, Redshift helps you unlock the full power of your EDR platform.

Defend endpoints. Detect early. Disrupt adversaries before damage is done.

SOC Services

24/7 threat detection, investigation, and response—delivered by a dedicated security operations team.

Redshift’s Managed SOC (Security Operations Centre) service provides organisations with continuous visibility, real-time alerting, and expert-led incident response without the overhead of building an in-house SOC. Delivered as a fully managed service, our SOC-as-a-MSSP offering acts as your front line of cyber defense, monitoring your networks, endpoints, cloud environments, and users around the clock.

We combine industry-leading SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms with human-led analysis to detect and disrupt threats before they escalate.

Key features of our Managed SOC service include:

24/7 Monitoring & Detection – Continuous surveillance across endpoints, cloud, networks, and identities
Advanced Threat Analytics – Correlation of logs, events, and behavioral anomalies using MITRE ATT&CK mapping
Alert Triage & Investigation – Rapid validation of security alerts with deep forensic and contextual analysis
Automated & Human Response – Threat containment, isolation, and playbook-driven remediation
Threat Intelligence Enrichment – Real-time IOCs and TTPs integrated into detection pipelines
Regular Threat Hunting – Proactive identification of hidden or emerging adversary activity
Compliance Reporting – Audit-ready logs, reports, and dashboards aligned with ISO 27001, PCI DSS, POPIA, and more

Whether augmenting your existing IT team or operating as your dedicated security function, Redshift’s SOC enables faster detection, lower dwell time, and a measurable reduction in cyber risk.

Turn alerts into action. Strengthen security maturity. Operate with confidence.

Cyber Crime Investigations

Unmask digital adversaries. Disrupt organised threats. Protect your leadership and brand.

Redshift’s Cybercrime Investigations service delivers deep, intelligence-led investigations into advanced cybercriminal activity targeting your organisation, executives, and digital assets. We specialise in profiling adversaries, tracking coordinated threat groups, and executing takedown operations across the dark web, clearnet, and encrypted communication channels.

This service is designed for high-risk environments, targeted organisations, and executive teams facing elevated threat levels from financially motivated attackers, hostile competitors, or nation-state-aligned actors.

Key investigation areas include:

Executive Threat Profiling
Analysis of digital footprint, personal exposure, impersonation attempts, and targeted reconnaissance against key personnel (e.g., CEO, CFO, CIO). Includes dark web monitoring, social engineering risk analysis, and protection strategies.
Organised Crime & Cyber Gang Tracking
Attribution of persistent attack campaigns to known or emerging threat actors. We investigate infrastructure, toolkits, monikers, cryptocurrency movement, and group affiliations across forums and illicit marketplaces.
Takedown Operations
Coordination with ISPs, CERTs, legal teams, and platform providers to dismantle phishing infrastructure, spoof domains, malware delivery servers, and threat actor profiles. Includes legal evidence packages and chain-of-custody preservation.
Digital Attribution & Threat Actor Identification
Combining open source intelligence (OSINT), dark web analysis, technical forensics, and HUMINT to identify or deanonymize attackers, enabling legal or law enforcement action.
Breach & Brand Abuse Investigations
Investigate data leaks, customer record exposure, and brand impersonation across deep/dark web, Telegram, Discord, and botnet ecosystems. Monitor for leaked credentials, corporate secrets, and insider collusion.

Redshift works discreetly and collaboratively with your legal, HR, risk, and executive teams providing actionable intelligence, forensic evidence, and a clear remediation path to mitigate threat exposure and restore control.

Expose the invisible. Track the threat. Take back control.

FAQ

Vulnerability Scanning or Penetration Testing?

Vulnerability scanning is usually performed in an automated fashion, identifying known vulnerabilities in the target assets.

A penetration test is performed by a qualified human being, carrying out manual test cases which can uncover more complex and subtle types of vulnerability.

Black Box, White Box or Grey Box?

Black box testing involves zero prior knowledge of the target system and is a realistic way to simulate an external adversary.

White box testing involves full knowledge of the target system, code and business processes. This is a good approach for getting the maximum possible coverage and depth.

Grey Box testing involves some level of initial access or a low privilege account. This is a good approach for simulating a compromised account or insider threat and provides a good balance between black and white box testing.

Why do I need a Penetration test?

Often an annual penetration test is required for risk and governance purposes or compliance with certain frameworks such as ISO27001 and PCI-DSS.

Penetration testing is also a valuable and proactive way to identify and remediate vulnerabilities before a data breach or ransomware attack occurs.

How do I determine the Scope of testing?

Reach out to us and Redshift will walk you through the various options and make recommendations for the maximum value and coverage depending on your requirement and budget.

What is the Process for a penetration test?

Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
Scoping
Proposal submission
Proposal acceptance
Selection of dates
Project delivery
Project closeout and report delivery
Report review and acceptance
Submission of invoice
Retesting (Optional)