Red Teaming is Where We Excel

Time and again, organizations call Raxis when other security teams fall short.

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Human Ingenuity. Real Adversaries. Unmatched Results.

Modern cyber threats demand more than AI tools. Guided by seasoned experts who deploy AI augmented pentesting only when it improves outcomes, the Raxis Red Team stages lifelike attacks across digital, social, and physical fronts to uncover weaknesses and fortify defenses.

Every Red Team assessment is structured around the globally recognized MITRE ATT&CK framework, ensuring our red team stays current with the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures used by real-world threat actors. This drives comprehensive, up-to-date, and industry-aligned testing.

We map out your public attack surface — often uncovering startling amounts of exposed data and hidden risks. By leveraging open-source intelligence, our Cybersecurity Red Team shows you exactly what adversaries can learn about your organization and how they might use it to launch a targeted attack.

We use the latest exploit techniques, including leveraging cutting-edge AI pentest tools, to break through digital perimeters, escalate access privileges, and move laterally through your infrastructure. Our Red Team Operation performs deep dive assessments reveal hidden vulnerabilities and path-of-least-resistance flaws before they can be abused by real attackers.

Our Cybersecurity Red Team deploy sophisticated, realistic social engineering campaigns — using email, phone calls, and even in-person approaches — to truly test how your staff respond under pressure. We turn each attempt into a learning moment, helping you build a smarter, more vigilant workforce.

From covert badge cloning to bypassing security checkpoints, the Raxis Red Team tests every layer of your physical defenses. Our experts mimic real intruders who don’t play by the rules, helping you see precisely where your buildings and facilities are most at risk.

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson

Not Just Automated, Not Just “AI-Driven” — Authentically Human.

Raxis uses AI-augmented penetration testing techniques to boost testing efficiency and depth.

Uncover Hidden Risks with Human-Driven Red Team Engagements

We test your people, processes, and technology, exposing weak spots that automated scans can’t see.

Brian Tant

Hi, I’m Brian

Chief Penetration Testing Officer

“Automated tools can spot known risks, but only real adversaries — thinking like humans — can uncover the ones you never imagined. That’s how we stay ahead of emerging threats.”

Brian Tant, our Chief Penetration Testing Officer and Red Team Leader, has led countless Red Team engagements for organizations of all sizes. Known for his creative, attacker-focused mindset and deep technical expertise, Brian ensures every assessment is realistic, thorough, and focused on the threats that matter most.

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Proven Platform, Trusted Process

Stay ahead of threats by tracking your assessment’s progress as it happens. With Raxis One, you get instant visibility into discoveries, risk details, and remediation steps — all through a secure, intuitive platform.

Tailored Assaults, Not Templates

Tailored engagements target your critical assets and people, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to reflect current attacker tactics and techniques.

Let’s Work Together

Many customers use our Red Team to test their Blue Team effectiveness. We orchestrate realistic cyber attacks to ensure your team is ready when real threats strike.

Industry-Leading Expertise

Fortune 500 companies and critical organizations trust Raxis for forensic expertise, relentless curiosity, and creative problem solving that defines exceptional red teaming.

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Privilege Escalation

We will elevate privileges by leveraging methods such as misconfigured permissions, exploiting vulnerabilities in the kernel, and taking advantage of weaknesses in local accounts. Once we gain a foothold, we pivot laterally through your network using tools like Mimikatz and PAExec to expand reach and access sensitive materials.

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Password Cracking

With your approval, we’ll securely extract and analyze critical authentication data, including password hashes and digital certificates. This comprehensive approach allows us to identify potential vulnerabilities in your authentication mechanisms and provide targeted recommendations to enhance your overall security posture.

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Data Exfiltration

Once we identify the most vital components, we will demonstrate that we can extract data without physically removing anything from your network. This enhances the evidence of cybersecurity risk. Our simulated data exfiltration exercise tests your existing security controls, providing valuable insights to enhance your incident response capabilities.

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Safe Exploitation

Our red team uses advanced techniques to find and exploit system vulnerabilities with tools like Nmap and Metasploit. Leveraging our collective expertise, the Raxis Red Team consistently outperforms industry rivals, delivering superior results. Our reputation for excellence has led clients to engage us when other security firms fall short, solidifying our position as the go-to experts for challenging cybersecurity assessments.

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The Raxis Red Teaming Methodology

Raxis Red Team methodology follows the industry standard MITRE ATT&CK framework.

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Scoping

The Raxis Red Team collaborates with you to define red team engagement scope, identifying key assets and tailoring realistic threat scenarios aligned with your specific risks and compliance needs.

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Intelligence Gathering

Raxis conducts thorough reconnaissance using publicly available information, social media, domain registries, dark web forums, and OSINT to identify vulnerabilities like exposed credentials or organizational weaknesses, allowing you to address risks proactively.

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Vulnerability Identification

Our red team experts use manual techniques and advanced tools to identify vulnerabilities across cyber, social, and physical elements, providing deep contextual understanding of how vulnerabilities could be chained together in real world attacks.

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Strategic Threat Modeling

Raxis enhances your defenses through threat modeling, cataloging critical assets from digital infrastructure to key personnel, mapping potential adversaries using public and dark web intelligence, and developing attack trees to expose hidden risks and deliver prioritized defense strategies.

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Adversarial Simulation

The Raxis Red Team tests your security holistically by launching simulated attacks across multiple vectors including phishing, social engineering, physical intrusions, and cyber exploits, evaluating detection, response, and recovery capabilities to provide a true measure of readiness against persistent threats.

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Exploitation

Within the agreed scope, Raxis carefully exploits identified vulnerabilities to demonstrate how adversaries could achieve unauthorized access, data exfiltration, or operational disruption through controlled, ethical attacks that highlight potential impacts and help prioritize remediation without causing actual harm.

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Post-Exploitation Analysis

Our red team experts use manual techniques and advanced tools to identify vulnerabilities across cyber, social, and physical elements, providing deep contextual understanding of how vulnerabilities could be chained together in real world attacks.

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Reporting

Upon completion of a Red Team, we deliver a detailed report with prioritized vulnerabilities categorized by severity and business impact, including proof of concept exploits, attack narratives, remediation recommendations, and visual storyboards showing how adversaries could chain exploits for maximum effect.

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Actionable Advisory and Remediation Planning

Raxis extends support beyond the report with collaborative debrief sessions, walking you through findings and providing tailored recommendations to mitigate risks, while working with your team to develop strategic remediation plans and build long term defenses against evolving threats.

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Retest

To confirm remediation effectiveness, Raxis offers comprehensive retesting services, revisiting previously exploited vulnerabilities to verify fixes and check for new risks introduced during changes, giving you confidence in your improved security posture and measurable progress against real world threats.

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Raxis Hack Stories

Our stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers; however, some details have been altered or omitted to protect our customers’ identities.

In a daring demonstration of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the Raxis Red Team orchestrated a multi-stage attack that exposed critical weaknesses in a major retailer’s digital infrastructure. The operation began with our team targeting the company’s wireless network using the powerful Aircrack-ng suite. This versatile toolkit allowed us to capture the network’s encryption key during a routine handshake process and swiftly crack it using Hashcat’s advanced capabilities.

With network access secured, we obtained local system access and then pivoted to internal systems using CrackMapExec, a potent post-exploitation tool. We discovered a system protected by nothing more than a default password — a digital equivalent of leaving the keys in the ignition. This oversight became our gateway, allowing us to gain local administrator privileges. Using CrackMapExec’s –sam option, we dumped the local SAM hashes, further expanding our access.

Like master locksmiths, we moved from system to system, leveraging our newly acquired local admin rights. Eventually, we obtained a prized domain administrator hash. Overnight, our dedicated team worked tirelessly, using Raxis’ Hashcat multi-GPU system to break this high-value credential. Returning the next day, we validated our newfound domain administrative access, cementing our control over the retailer’s entire digital domain.

The crown jewel of our operation was the discovery of the application and database containing store-branded gift cards and PINs, along with the ability to generate new ones at will. This find not only highlighted the potential for financial exploitation but also underscored the critical importance of robust, multi-layered cybersecurity measures in today’s retail landscape.

Red Teams, Blue Teams, And Purple Teams?

Red Teams simulate real world attackers, probing your defenses to find vulnerabilities before cybercriminals do.
Blue Teams defend your organization by monitoring networks, detecting intrusions, and responding to security incidents.
Purple Teams bridge Red and Blue teams, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement to advance your security posture.

Uncovering What Others Miss

AI-Enhanced Methodology for Smarter Cyber Defense

Veteran operators drive every engagement, weaving AI-augmented pentesting into phases that benefit from speed or deeper pattern matching. This hybrid approach reduces reconnaissance time and surfaces hidden correlations that generic scans miss.
Raxis blends AI augmented exploits, social engineering, and physical intrusion to mimic real attackers, mapping every route to lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
Operating quietly over days or weeks, our human led red team uncovers slow burn attack paths that fast, tool driven tests completely miss.

Results that change minds

Clients are shocked to discover how close they were to a breach despite clean reports from major firms. Raxis findings drive board urgency, prioritize real business risks, and strengthen defenses before attacks occur.

Our Unique Edge

Many firms hire big-name security vendors for an annual checkup — yet dangerous vulnerabilities still remain, only to be discovered by a security breach. Raxis is the team organizations call next, and we almost always find critical gaps that were left behind.

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Red Teaming FAQ

Our Red Teaming FAQ covers the most common questions we hear from organizations looking to strengthen their defenses — straight answers from the experts at Raxis.

At Raxis, our Red Team takes your cybersecurity to the next level by simulating real-world hacker attacks. We use our expertise to evaluate your physical locations and operational systems, identifying any potential weaknesses that could put your organization at risk. Our team is made up of top professionals with a wealth of experience, ensuring that you receive the most accurate and comprehensive Red Team Assessment. Whether you’re a multinational corporation or a small business, our services can help you protect your valuable data and assets.

Though malicious hackers may have endless opportunities to try and infiltrate your systems, our Red Team Assessments are limited to a set amount of time, known as a timebox. Once the assessment is completed, we provide a report detailing Raxis’ accomplishments during the allotted time and recommendations on how you can better protect your environment against similar attempts by malicious hackers.

Although we do occasionally collaborate with organizations that adhere to this mindset, we are of the opinion that it is flawed. The concept proposes that various pentesters possess diverse backgrounds and capabilities, yet all pentesting companies are not equal. At Raxis, our pentesters possess impeccable credentials and expertise, continuously collaborating and exchanging cutting-edge information on emerging risks and breaches. Unfortunately, not all of our competitors can make the same claim. We strongly advocate for companies to seek out a reputable pentesting company like Raxis and entrust them to conduct thorough assessments year after year.

Yes, absolutely. Our top priority is ensuring your system uptime and data integrity. Unlike malicious attackers, our thorough penetration tests are designed to stop short of causing any real damage. We take great care to obscure any data we gather as proof of access. Our team will also adhere to any parameters set by our clients, while still pushing the boundaries and exploring the limits of their systems’ security. We believe in providing reliable and effective penetration testing services to help protect your business from potential cybersecurity threats.

If no specific instructions have been given, our team will attempt to crack passwords as part of our evaluation process to gauge the effectiveness of password policies and enforcement. This may also involve using compromised passwords to access other systems, resulting in a simulated data breach on a larger scale. Raxis takes precautions to safeguard the hash data through strong encryption when it is stored and in transit. After completing the password cracking task, we will securely delete the password hashes and provide you with a summarized report, which will include information on password strength, complexity, and analysis. In a Red Team Assessment, password cracking plays a crucial role in showcasing a genuine attack scenario.

If you have implemented security upgrades that are nearing completion, it would be advisable to schedule a red team test afterwards in order to thoroughly test the effectiveness of your changes. However, in most cases, the best time to conduct a red team test is in the present. If your system has any known issues that have not yet been addressed, it may be due to budget constraints. In such cases, a Raxis red team can provide tangible evidence to your management team to demonstrate the urgency of these changes. Perhaps you have been delaying certain changes that may seem insignificant, but a Raxis Red Team will highlight how these seemingly minor vulnerabilities can combine to create a significant weak spot, giving hackers greater access than you may have anticipated.

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, it is crucial for companies to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to cybersecurity. That’s why Raxis highly recommends conducting a Red Team Assessment at least once a year. This thorough analysis will help uncover any vulnerabilities that may have gone undetected and allow your company to take proactive measures to strengthen its security. Furthermore, it is crucial to follow up with a penetration test 4-6 months after a Red Team to ensure that any identified weaknesses have been properly addressed. With Raxis by your side, you can rest assured that your company’s defenses are continuously being tested and strengthened to protect against potential breaches.

We prioritize following all legal regulations to the letter. Raxis contractual agreements are carefully crafted to clearly outline permissible actions versus actions that are not permitted. One of our core principles is to never intentionally damage or disrupt our clients’ systems. Instead, we strive to provide real-world examples of how a skilled hacker could infiltrate their defenses and educate our customers on methods to fortify their security. While some employees of our customer’s organization may not be fully aware of our activities, our customer management team is always fully involved and in support of our efforts.

Once the scope has been determined and finalized, we collaborate directly with cloud providers to give them clear and accurate information about our actions and intentions. At Raxis, we have successfully completed a myriad of tests on various cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS/EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace, and VMWare cloud. We have also gained a great deal of experience working with content delivery front ends like CloudFlare and Akamai. Whether it is highly advanced virtualization technologies or traditional setups, our experts at Raxis are prepared to properly perform your Red Team Assessment.

The Raxis Red Team is known for their unparalleled ability to identify real-life security threats through the use of techniques and tools employed by malicious attackers. Comprised of highly experienced members, most of whom boast at least 10 years of experience in performing cyber attacks, our team operates primarily out of Atlanta, GA. Our forte lies in pentesting, a crucial element of Red Teaming, and we strive to stay updated with the latest tactics to bypass various technological defenses. The Raxis crew is constantly broadening their knowledge on the most recent exploits to ensure we always offer a state-of-the-art simulation for our customers.