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2025-06-02 · 6 min read
Preparing your team for a red team exercise
The worst time to explain the exercise is while your SOC is paging the CEO. A short primer for security leads.
Tell the minimum number of people. A red team that everyone knows about is a tabletop in costume. Brief legal, HR if people-ops are in scope, and a technical control owner who can halt the work.
Decide the objective in a sentence: ‘obtain payroll data’, ‘reach the production Kubernetes control plane’, ‘place a benign beacon on an executive laptop you issue’. Vague objectives produce vague reports.
Prepare detection to learn, not to win. If you secretly white-list our infrastructure, say so — we will mark the exercise accordingly. Cheating waste everyone’s calendar.
Book the debrief before the first day of testing. Purple-team time is where detection engineering actually changes.
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