Red Team
Think like an attacker. Defend like a strategist.
Red Teaming isn’t just something we offer, it’s where Toro started. From day one, we’ve believed that the best way to defend against threats is to understand how real attackers operate. Our very foundation was built on simulating complex, blended attacks across cyber, physical, and human layers.
Toro’s Red Team services are shaped by over a decade of experience pushing the boundaries of ethical intrusion. We don’t just test systems we challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and show you how adversaries could truly break through. This isn’t theory. It’s real-world risk, revealed by people who know exactly how to find it.
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What is Red Team Testing?
Red Team testing is a simulated, full-scope attack on your organisation. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which tends to focus on either a cyber of physical test or a specified operation, system or application, a Red Team engagement evaluates how well your organisation can detect, respond to, and recover from a multi-layered attack – just like the real thing.
It’s the most realistic test of your resilience, pulling together every aspect of your defence: cyber, physical, and human. Think of it as a live-fire exercise for your business. We emulate attackers who don’t follow the rules. While we test your limits, we do so without causing disruption or harm to your operations.
Toro’s Red Team advantage
Our Red Team services are rooted in our DNA. Toro was built around the belief that blended threats require blended expertise. In fact, Toro’s founder designed UK’s first Red Team penetration testing methodology in 2012, combining physical intrusion, social engineering, and ethical hacking into one unified threat simulation.
Since then, we’ve delivered Red Team engagements across a multitude of organisations, including, government, finance, defence, and critical national infrastructure. From digital break-ins to badge cloning and tailgating, our team has tested, infiltrated, and exposed real-world vulnerabilities in over 100 organisations – safely, ethically, and with purpose.
Why choose Toro for your Red Team engagement?
Proven pedigree
Our CEO led the UK’s first formal Red Team programme.
Blended threat simulations
We simulate blended threats across cyber, physical, and social domains - just like real-world attacks.
Customised scoping
Every Red Team test is designed around your threat profile, goals, and risk appetite.
Full-spectrum expertise
We combine ethical hackers, security consultants, ex-military operatives, and behavioural analysts.
Real impact, not just reports
Our mission isn’t to give you a long list of problems. It’s to help you fix what matters most.
Track record of discretion and trust
We’ve worked with some of the UK’s most sensitive organisations under tight operational and legal requirements.
Actionable insight
Our reports are practical, prioritised, and clear including executive summaries and remediation roadmaps.
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People focussed
At Toro, people are at the core of everything we do – our team, our clients, and the partners we collaborate with.
We prioritise building trusted relationships, delivering consistently high standards, and providing tailored support that reflects the unique needs of every client.
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The Red Team process
Every Red Team operation follows a well-defined process tailored to your organisation’s context. Here’s what to expect:
Planning & scoping
We work with you to define clear objectives, rules of engagement, constraints, timelines, and reporting needs.
Reconnaissance & intelligence gathering
Our Red Team gathers open-source intelligence (OSINT), maps your organisation, identifies targets, and looks for potential entry points.
Initial access
Using cyber attacks, phishing campaigns, or even physical access methods, we attempt to breach your perimeter just like an adversary would.
Privilege escalation & pivoting
Once inside, the Red Team moves laterally, escalating privileges, bypassing controls, and identifying your crown-jewel assets.
Objectives & impact demonstration
Whether it’s data exfiltration, access to critical infrastructure, or physical asset compromise, we simulate achieving your highest-value targets.
Detection testing & response evaluation
We observe how your systems and teams detect, respond, or fail to react. This is a key part of evaluating resilience.
Debrief & reporting
You receive a comprehensive report, executive presentation, and remediation guidance. No jargon. Just clear answers.
Re-testing & continuous support (optional)
After remediation, our Red Team can re-engage to validate fixes and help optimise your defences further.
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Why a Red Team test is essential
A Red Team assessment goes far beyond scanning and scripted exploits. It’s an intelligence-led simulation of a determined attacker. Here’s what it helps you do:
- Understand how attackers think and operate.
- Identify vulnerabilities that only appear when systems are chained together.
- Test your people and processes, not just your technology.
- Discover gaps in incident response and detection.
- Uncover blind spots in physical security.
- Validate the effectiveness of your security investments.
- Prepare for real-world attacks with evidence, not assumptions.
Red Team, real results
Engaging a Red Team helps demonstrate best practices to your clients, insurers, and regulators. It improves internal security culture, hardens your defences, and provides an evidence-based view of your real risk exposure.
It also supports:
- Cost-effective risk management – Prioritise what matters most.
- Compliance alignment – Supplement formal audits with real-world assurance.
- Security maturity – Evolve from being reactive to proactive defence.
- Strategic decision-making – Guide budgets and policy with insight.
- Reputation protection – Reduce the chance of breaches that destroy trust.
Red Team FAQs
It depends on the scope. Smaller engagements take 1–2 weeks, while full multi-domain simulations may run over several weeks or in stages. We’ll define this clearly during scoping.
Yes we will need to come on site as part of the test but rest assured, we always operate with discretion and within legal and ethical boundaries.
Absolutely. We tailor Red Team engagements for organisations of all sizes from SMEs to global enterprises based on industry, threat model, and budget.
Traditional penetration testing focuses on specific vulnerabilities in either the cyber or physical domains. Red Team testing looks at the bigger picture simulating blended attacks across cyber, physical, and human layers to test your end-to-end defences.
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Ready to test what matters?
Don’t wait for a breach to find your weakest link. Let Toro’s Red Team show you what attackers already see and help you fix it before it’s too late.
Book a Red Team scoping call today.
Toro’s history with Red Teaming
Toro was built on Red Team thinking. We’ve always believed that to defend properly, you must first understand how attackers operate in the real world. Our founder’s pioneering work in this space still shapes every engagement we deliver today.
From day one, the Red Team approach has informed everything we do from audits to advisory, testing to training. It’s more than a service it’s where Toro started.
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