Adversarial Security Testing

Identify and remediate gaps as highly certified security consultants help test your security defenses and response capabilities

Battle testing security defenses and incident response capabilities

As threats continuously evolve, it’s critical for your organization to take proactive steps toward understanding how you’d fare against the latest adversarial tools and techniques. How can you best measure your level of preparedness? With goal-based security testing assessments that exploit your IT ecosystem for both known and unknown vulnerabilities—before your adversaries can.

Your attack surface changes continuously, but the Secureworks^® Adversary Group (SwAG) has you covered.

Our team will pressure-test your IT ecosystem against these threats and more:

Ransomware
Supply chain threats
Custom-developed applications
Remote and mobile vulnerabilities

Our dedicated team of experienced testers emulate adversaries and leverage the best offensive and defensive threat intelligence, shining a light on your organization’s riskiest areas. This helps enable risk-based, actionable remediation efforts across your systems, infrastructure, applications, and detection and response capabilities.

High-level Benefits

Gain Assurance

Test your applications, networks, infrastructure, cloud assets, personnel, and more to improve your security posture

Prepare Better

Gain critical insight from an adversary’s perspective and receive actionable recommendations from each engagement to enhance your security

Achieve Compliance

Establish controls to help maintain compliance with best practices, regulations, and industry mandates

Adversarial Security Testing Services

The Secureworks Adversary Group delivers a variety of adversary emulation services to help organizations of all sizes, verticals, and maturity levels understand their security weaknesses and vulnerabilities, improve defenses, and build incident readiness capabilities.

Penetration Testing

Identify the ways a threat actor would gain access to your infrastructure.

Penetration Testing
Application Security Testing

Reduce risk by assessing critical applications to help prioritize remediation actions.

Application Security Testing
Red/Purple Team Exercises

Evaluate your response to a stealthy, highly sophisticated adversary or embark on a variety of collaborative services to gain additional adversary insight and help improve your security posture.

Red/Purple Team Exercises
Specialized Engagement & Custom Work
The Secureworks Adversary Group is a large, seasoned group of world-class hackers. While we offer the standard adversarial testing services you'd expect from a consultancy of our size, we also offer custom testing of unique devices, systems, and threat models. No matter what devices, systems, software or threat model you are working with, if it can be attacked by an adversary – we can do it for you. Here are some examples:
- IoT, OT, Embedded Devices
- Vehicle Systems Testing (Automotive, CANBUS, autonomous, vessels, aircrafts)
- Custom wireless applications (non-standard, non-802.11)
- Blockchain-integrated applications
- Hardware device reverse-engineering and adversarial testing
- High-speed password cracking and analysis
- Medical device teardown, reverse-engineering, and adversarial testing
- SAP
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Blog

Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker

Password Related Compromises

It doesn’t matter whether you’re a military leader, a football coach, or a poker player. To defeat your enemy, you must think like them.

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Getting Inside the Mind of a Hacker Part 2

Remote Work Vulnerabilities

Defenders have to fortify every angle of their security – and account for changes in the way we work today.

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Blog

Improve Penetration Testing Results With a Simple Password

Access to legitimate credentials can allow pentesters to effectively configure tooling and frees more time to focus on discovering potential attack vectors.

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Penetration Testing with Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is a useful tool for admins, but also makes for a great staging area for attackers.

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Why Secureworks Adversary Group

The Secureworks Adversary Group’s primary mission is to help customers be more secure. All they do — day in and day out — is security testing. Our testers are passionate about security and are continuously honing their skills through training, knowledge exchange with their peers, and exercising those skills (and winning) at the world’s largest Capture the Flag (CTF) events.

Our experienced testers leverage a goal-based approach to testing, combining the strength of years of practical hands-on experience, highly specialized skill sets, integrated threat intelligence, and lessons learned from over 2,500 unique testing engagements conducted annually. This helps enhance security outcomes and enable pragmatic, proactive improvements that matter to your organization.

Global team of dedicated world-class ethical hackers and security researchers

Year in a row winning the GRRCon Car Hacking CTF (2021)

Videos

When Good Guys Go Bad

Beat the Threat: Adversarial Simulation Video Series

The Secureworks Adversary Group thinks and acts like the adversary to help identify and expose vulnerabilities, challenge existing assumptions, and mitigate risk.

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Improving Incident Response Outcomes, Incident Readiness and Detection Capabilities

The Secureworks Adversary Group seamlessly integrates with the broader network of Secureworks experts to help reduce risk, improve incident readiness, and strengthen our understanding of threat actors.