
Secureroot's offensive security assessments go beyond pen testing - simulating real attacker behaviour, testing your defenders (SOC, IR team, employees), and producing board-level evidence of true breach readiness. Red team, purple team, phishing simulation, social engineering, and physical security testing. ISO 27001 certified. CERT-In aligned. Trusted by MoJ Kuwait and India's leading enterprises.















Offensive security assessment is the umbrella term for engagements where certified ethical hackers actively simulate real attackers – testing not just your technology (like pen testing does) but also your people, processes, and defenders. Red team operations emulate specific threat actors using their actual tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Phishing simulations test employee security awareness. Social engineering tests test your processes. Purple team exercises train your blue team while testing. Physical security testing tests your physical controls.
Pen testing finds vulnerabilities in scope: ‘here are the technical issues in this application’. Red team operations find paths to specific objectives: ‘here’s how an attacker would steal your customer database, no matter what they had to break to do it’. Pen testing tells you what’s broken; red teaming tells you what an attacker can actually achieve. The two are complementary – most mature security programs run pen tests quarterly and red team exercises annually. If you’ve never been red-teamed, you’ve never been seriously tested.
Offensive security is what mature organisations buy after they’ve mastered pen testing. Indian regulators are catching up – RBI’s Cyber Master Direction now references threat-led penetration testing (TLPT). SEBI CSCRF expects mature security programs. Cyber insurance underwriters increasingly want red team evidence. Board members and audit committees want answers to a simple question: ‘if we were attacked tomorrow, would we know? Would we respond fast enough?’ Offensive security provides that answer with evidence – not just opinion.


We scale offensive testing to your security maturity. Start with phishing simulation, grow into purple team exercises, mature into full adversary simulation.

Multi-wave email phishing campaigns testing employee awareness with realistic scenarios, click tracking, credential capture analysis, and security awareness reporting. The entry point for organisations new to offensive testing.

Vishing (voice phishing), smishing (SMS phishing), pretexting calls, and OSINT-driven impersonation tests. Tests whether your people and processes hold up to targeted human attacks.

Authorized attempts to gain physical access to your offices, data centers, or facilities – testing tailgating, badge cloning, lock bypass, and physical social engineering. Includes branch banking, retail, and critical facilities.

Full adversary simulation with stealth, persistence, and specific objectives (steal database, achieve domain admin, breach segregated network). Uses MITRE ATT&CK TTPs. Tests SOC detection and IR response.

Collaborative red+blue team engagement. Red team executes attacks, blue team observes and responds in real-time, with controlled scenarios that improve detection while testing. Knowledge transfer at every step.

We start with simulated initial access (compromised endpoint, leaked credentials) and test post-breach detection, containment, and response. Tests what happens AFTER perimeter defenses fail – which is when most damage occurs.

Click any vector to expand. We use the same techniques real attackers use – mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and emulating threat actors that target your industry.
Targeted phishing campaigns against specific employees with role-relevant pretexts (vendor invoices for finance team, executive impersonation for assistants, IT-helpdesk pretexts for general staff). We test malicious attachment detonation, credential harvesting via lookalike portals, OAuth abuse, and post-phishing access. We measure not just click rates but post-click behaviour - credential entry, MFA bypass attempts, and security team reporting times.
Voice phishing (vishing) calls impersonating IT helpdesk, vendors, or executives. SMS phishing (smishing) campaigns with urgent action prompts. Pretexting calls targeting customer service, HR, or finance teams. We test whether your employees: verify caller identity, follow your verification procedures, escalate suspicious calls, and resist social pressure tactics. Common findings: helpdesk staff resetting passwords without verification, finance staff initiating wire transfers based on caller authority.
Authorized physical access attempts at your offices, data centers, branch locations, or critical facilities. We test tailgating (following employees through secure doors), badge cloning (RFID/HID cards), lock picking, lock bypass, after-hours intrusion attempts, and impersonation of cleaning staff, vendors, or delivery personnel. We assess physical security controls: visitor management, CCTV coverage, security guard effectiveness, and badge issuance procedures.
When red team operations need to breach via web vectors, we exploit web applications and APIs in scope - typically with same depth as our standalone web app and API pen testing services. The difference: in red team mode, we're chasing specific objectives stealthily, not enumerating all vulnerabilities. We focus on the minimum viable exploitation path to achieve the engagement objective while avoiding detection by your WAF and SOC.
Targeted exploitation of your internet-facing infrastructure: VPN gateways, web servers, mail servers, exposed admin interfaces, leaked credentials from third-party breaches, and recent CVEs in your perimeter. We attempt MFA bypass, credential stuffing with leaked passwords, and exploitation of recent vulnerabilities — exactly as real adversaries would. We coordinate timing to avoid impact on production while maintaining realism.
Once inside (via initial access or assumed-breach), we move laterally using MITRE ATT&CK techniques: Pass-the-Hash, Overpass-the-Hash, Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, BloodHound for attack path enumeration, Mimikatz for credential extraction, and exploitation of misconfigured ACLs and trust relationships. Our goal: reach domain admin and the crown-jewel systems while testing your detection capability at every step.
We test cloud and SaaS attack paths increasingly used by real adversaries: M365/Google Workspace OAuth abuse, exposed cloud storage buckets, leaked cloud credentials in code repos, exploitation of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) for code injection, supply chain attacks via third-party SaaS integrations, and exploitation of cloud admin consoles (AWS, Azure, GCP). These are how modern attackers move — we test them realistically.
Once we achieve initial objectives, we test data exfiltration paths: DNS tunneling, HTTPS-encrypted exfil to attacker-controlled C2 infrastructure, cloud-storage exfil (uploading to attacker-controlled S3 or OneDrive), email-based exfil, and slow-and-low exfiltration to evade volume-based DLP. The goal: test whether your DLP, SIEM, and SOC actually detect data leaving the environment, not just whether they're configured to.
Our certified Tier 3 engineers conduct our no-obligation Assessment, which offers you actionable insights into your network.


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SecureRoot's expertise in banking technology cybersecurity was crucial for our Varta platform's success. Their comprehensive VAPT assessment and BFSI compliance framework enabled us to secure communications for India's largest banks while maintaining the performance that drives 3x revenue uplift for our clients. Their security solutions directly contributed to our market leadership in customer communication management.
FCI CCM
SecureRoot demonstrated exceptional expertise in government digital services cybersecurity. Their comprehensive security assessment of our Sahl platform and electronic judicial systems exceeded our national security expectations. We now operate the most secure government digital services in the region, ensuring complete protection for citizen data and legal proceedings.
Ministry of Justice, Kuwait
SecureRoot's specialized healthcare cybersecurity expertise transformed our operations management platform security. Their comprehensive VAPT assessment and HIPAA compliance framework enabled us to deliver secure, efficient healthcare solutions while protecting sensitive patient data. We now provide our healthcare partners with industry-leading security alongside operational excellence.
HOM India Pvt Ltd

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An offensive security assessment is any engagement where certified ethical hackers simulate real attackers to test your defences end-to-end - not just technical controls but also your people, processes, SOC, and IR team. Common types include red team operations (full adversary simulation), purple team exercises (collaborative red+blue training), phishing simulations (email awareness testing), social engineering assessments (voice/SMS/pretexting), physical security testing, and assumed breach assessments. The output: evidence of how your security would actually perform under real attack conditions.
Offensive security pricing in India varies by engagement type and depth. Phishing simulation campaigns start at ₹50,000-2,00,000. Social engineering assessments (vishing/smishing/pretexting) run ₹1,50,000-4,00,000. Physical security testing starts at ₹3,00,000 per site. Purple team exercises (1-2 weeks) run ₹5,00,000-10,00,000. Full red team operations (4-8 weeks) start at ₹8,00,000 and reach ₹25,00,000+ for enterprise scope. Assumed breach assessments run ₹4,00,000-12,00,000. Secureroot provides transparent fixed-price quoting after scoping.
Pen testing finds technical vulnerabilities in a defined scope: 'here are the security issues in this application/network'. Red teaming finds paths to specific objectives: 'here's how an attacker would steal your customer database, no matter what they had to break to do it'. Pen testing tells you what's broken. Red teaming tells you what an attacker can actually achieve and whether you'd notice. Most mature security programs do both - pen testing quarterly for breadth, red teaming annually for depth and realism.
Most organisations need three foundations before red teaming: (1) Working SOC or SIEM (otherwise you can't tell what was detected), (2) Documented IR runbook (otherwise the test reveals chaos you already knew about), (3) Recent pen testing of crown jewels (otherwise red team will just walk through known vulnerabilities). If you don't have these yet, start with phishing simulation and security awareness - both are lower-cost ways to begin offensive testing while you build foundations. We help organisations sequence offensive testing to security maturity.
Red team engagement duration depends on scope and objectives. Lightweight scenarios (single objective, single attack vector) run 2-3 weeks. Standard enterprise red team operations (multiple objectives, multiple attack vectors) run 4-6 weeks. Comprehensive engagements (threat actor emulation with persistence, multiple business units, board-level reporting) run 8-12 weeks. Purple team exercises run 1-3 weeks depending on scenario depth. Phishing simulations typically run 2-3 waves over 4-8 weeks. We provide clear timeline commitments during scoping.
Red team operations succeed when very few people know. Standard practice: only a small 'white cell' is informed - typically CISO, head of IR, head of SOC management, CEO/board champion, and engagement coordinator. Your front-line SOC analysts, IR responders, and general employees should NOT know — that's how you test realistically. We document everything for audit trail. After engagement, we conduct purple team debrief where the broader security team participates. Legal authorization documents protect both parties throughout.
Our red team operations use MITRE ATT&CK techniques relevant to your industry's threat profile. For BFSI: techniques used by FIN7, FIN11, Carbanak, banking trojans. For government: APT TTPs (Lazarus, APT29, APT41). For enterprise: ransomware operator TTPs (Conti, BlackCat, LockBit), commodity malware patterns. We map every action to specific ATT&CK technique IDs in our reports, making it easy for your blue team to map their detection coverage and improve.
Three ways to start: (1) Book a free 30-minute offensive scoping call - our senior consultants assess your security maturity, recommend the right starting engagement (phishing simulation, purple team, or full red team), and propose realistic objectives. No obligation. (2) Email info@secureroot.co with details (your security maturity, current detection capability, compliance drivers, timeline) and we'll respond within one business day. (3) Call +91 73071 48874 during business hours. For RBI-aligned threat-led penetration testing, we accommodate fast-track scoping.
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