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Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART)

Prioritize Initial Access Points That Would Be Targeted First By Running Frequent And Consistent Testing

What is CART?

Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) is a cutting-edge cybersecurity solution that continuously emulates real-world cyber-attacks to test and strengthen an organization’s defenses. Unlike traditional security assessments that are conducted periodically, CART operates around the clock, providing continuous and automated testing of your entire attack surface. By mimicking the tactics, techniques, and procedures of actual threat actors, CART identifies and prioritizes vulnerabilities, helping organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

Challenges with Traditional Red Teaming

01
Focus on Partial Assets
Traditional red team engagements often focus on core systems, neglecting peripheral assets such as development environments, cloud services, critical network components, databases, and external-facing websites. These overlooked areas are frequently targeted by attackers, leading to significant security gaps.
02
Infrequent Assessments
Traditional red teaming exercises are typically conducted annually or bi-annually, leaving long gaps between assessments. This infrequency allows emerging threats to go undetected for months, increasing the risk of successful attacks.
03
Limited Attack Scope
Traditional red teaming often relies on known vulnerabilities and commercial tools, providing a limited scope of attack methods. This approach may miss sophisticated tactics and custom-developed exploits used by advanced persistent threats (APTs).
04
High Cost and Difficult to Scale
Traditional red teaming relies heavily on human expertise, making it expensive and difficult to scale. Conducting these exercises more frequently would significantly increase costs and demand more resources.

FireCompass Continuous Automated Red Teaming

FireCompass revolutionizes Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) by continuously discovering, validating, and eliminating risks across your entire attack surface. It provides real-time identification of vulnerabilities, emulates multi-stage cyber-attacks to pinpoint prioritized risks, and reduces mean time to remediation (MTTR). This continuous assessment is crucial for organizations to enhance their security posture, minimize manual efforts, and maintain robust defenses against sophisticated cyber threats.

Recon/Attack Surface Management

Comprehensive reconnaissance on over 3 billion IPs using deep, dark, and surface web OSINT data, employing MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

  • AI/ML-Driven Asset Attribution: Ensures accurate identification of assets.
  • Active Validation: Eliminates false positives and provides detailed situational awareness.

Network Pentesting

Automates network penetration testing by emulating real-world attacks.

  • Endpoint Protection Evaluation: Assesses and tests endpoint security measures.
  • Vulnerability Identification: Detects issues such as malware injection, lateral movement, and privilege escalation.

Application Pentesting

Thoroughly maps the attack surface, analyzing entry points and deconstructing architecture and configurations.

  • Automated Tools & Manual Reviews: Uses a blend of techniques to go beyond OWASP Top 10.
  • Comprehensive Issue Detection: Identifies a wide range of vulnerabilities attackers could exploit.

Objective-Based Red Teaming Playbooks

Deploys tailored playbooks to emulate specific attack scenarios and objectives.

  • Focused Threat Simulations: Ensures relevant simulations for your organization’s unique security posture.
  • Customizable Scenarios: Targets specific vulnerabilities and security concerns.

MITRE-Based Full Kill Chain Automation

Emulates multi-stage attacks across the entire kill chain using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

  • Detailed Analysis: Provides deep insights into adversary tactics.
  • Actionable Recommendations: Offers precise steps for improving security based on simulated attacks.

Real-Time Alerting

Provides continuous, real-time alerts on vulnerabilities and attack simulations.

  • Immediate Threat Response: Enables quick action to mitigate risks.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Ensures ongoing protection and up-to-date security posture.

Advantages of FireCompass CART

Multi-Stage Attack Emulation:

Enable Continuous testing for ongoing monitoring and detection, to quickly identify and address new vulnerabilities.

Risk-Based Prioritization:

Identifies, analyzes, and prioritizes digital risks, focusing efforts on the most likely exploited vulnerabilities.

Reduced MTTR:

Faster identification and remediation of vulnerabilities, minimizing attack windows

Cost-Effective and Scalable:

Reduce the reliance on manual testing through automation, subsequently lowering the costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Automated Red Teaming is a continuous, automated process of testing the security of a system by simulating the activities of an adversary with the goal of uncovering weaknesses in the system. It uses a combination of automated tools and processes such as vulnerability scans, port scans, and other scanning techniques to detect potential vulnerabilities. Manual red teaming and penetration testing cannot be continuous processes due to limitations in time and budget and expertise. Automated Red Teaming is also more effective at uncovering weaknesses that may have been overlooked by manual testing. Automated Red Teaming can be used to supplement manual red teaming and penetration testing, providing a more comprehensive security evaluation.
  • Increased Efficiency: FireCompass’ automated processes can help streamline your red teaming efforts and maximize your team’s efficiency. FireCompass can automate tasks such as assessment scoping, data collection, data analysis, prioritization, and reporting, allowing your team to focus on the more important aspects of red teaming and blue teaming.
  • Improved Coverage: FireCompass’ automated red teaming tools can provide comprehensive coverage of your IT environment. By automating the data collection and analysis process, FireCompass can help you identify threats and vulnerabilities more quickly across your entire IT infrastructure.
  • Enhanced Visibility: FireCompass’ automated tools can provide detailed visibility into your IT environment. Automated data collection and analysis can give you a more comprehensive view of your IT infrastructure, allowing you to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities more quickly.
  • Reduced Costs: Automated red teaming with FireCompass can help reduce costs by eliminating the need to hire and train additional personnel. Automation can also help reduce the time and effort required for manual tasks, resulting in significant cost savings.
FireCompass automates red teaming by providing a platform that allows users to define and execute attack scenarios and tests via predefined and custom playbooks. It operates on a “continuous attack model” that monitors and tests systems on an ongoing basis. FireCompass can detect and alert on malicious activities, such as lateral movement and privilege escalation. It also provides a suite of tools for performing reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation activities. This helps organizations to detect and respond to potential threats before they become a problem and can validate blue team processes that detect these activities.
Automated Red Teaming can improve compliance by providing organizations with continuous monitoring of their networks, systems, and data. This helps to identify any potential risks or weaknesses in their security posture, allowing them to take action to address any issues and ensure that they are meeting their compliance requirements. Automated Red Teaming can also provide regular reports on the state of the organization’s security posture, making it easy to track progress and ensure compliance.
Automated Red Teaming can improve Blue Teaming by providing a more efficient and effective way to test security controls. Automation provides a consistent and repeatable way to simulate real-world attacks, which can help Blue Teams identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or other weaknesses that would be difficult to find manually. Automated Red Teaming also helps Blue Teams better understand the adversary’s tactics, techniques, and procedures, which can help them better prepare for and respond to real-world attacks.
  • Vulnerability Scanning: Using automated tools to identify and report on potential security weaknesses in your network and systems.
  • Social Engineering: Manipulating people into giving up confidential information or performing unauthorized actions.
  • Network Mapping: Utilizing tools to map out a network’s topology and identify potential entry points.
  • Penetration Testing: Using automated tools and manual methods to identify and exploit weaknesses in your networks and systems.
  • Physical Security Testing: Utilizing physical reconnaissance and covert methods to assess the physical security of your organization.
  • Malware Analysis: Examining malicious code to better understand the nature and purpose of the attack.
  • Database Enumeration: Utilizing tools to identify and retrieve information from databases.
  • Application Security Testing: Utilizing tools to evaluate the security of web and mobile applications.
  • Wireless Network Testing: Utilizing tools to assess the security of wireless networks.
  • Phishing Campaigns: Utilize emails to employees or partners to gain initial access or information about systems including credentials.
FireCompass uses trained Machine Learning algorithms to help reduce false positives by 99%. The platform analyzes the context of the risks and threats, and looks at the behavior of the attacker and the target, and learns the characteristics of successful malicious activity. FireCompass also leverages threat intelligence and reputation data to further refine output and filter out false positives. With its deep insights, FireCompass can accurately identify assets and risks to reduce false positives by 99%.
 

Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) utilizes automation to discover assets, prioritize risks, and conduct real-world attacks like real attackers. It improves cybersecurity posture by providing a cost-effective way to proactively and continuously assess your overall security posture, making red teaming more accessible, and providing real-time visibility into the organization’s defense performance.

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About FireCompass

FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM) that acts as an integral part of a good exposure management program. 

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