C-Suite Red Team Engagement Checklist: Strategic Methodology for Risk Mitigation
What's Inside?
This checklist guides C-level leaders through the critical phases of a red team engagement designed to simulate real-world cyberattacks. It provides a clear overview of activities that test your organisation’s defences, uncover vulnerabilities, and support effective risk mitigation aligned with business priorities.
Key Phases & Activities:
Engage & Plan Securely: Legal authorisation, resilient infrastructure, executive communication
Intelligence & Reconnaissance: Deep OSINT, discovery of visible and hidden assets
Initial Access & Weaponisation: Targeted phishing, SMShing, fishing, bypassing modern defences
Network Entry & Expansion: Stealthy lateral movement and asset mapping with EDR evasion
Active Directory Exploitation: Credential attacks and privilege escalation to critical assets
Post-Exploitation & Data Exfiltration: Controlled mapping and exfiltration of sensitive data
Command & Control: Encrypted multi-channel C2 mimicking real attackers, without disruption
Evasion & Anti-Forensics: Advanced evasion and operational security techniques
Documentation & Reporting: Executive summaries, compliance mapping, prioritised remediation
Cleanup & Remediation: Removal of changes and artefacts, formal handover for risk closure
Quality Assurance & Validation: Peer review, accuracy validation, environment-specific assessment
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