What is the difference between Red Teaming and Penetration Testing?

Penetration Testing focuses on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities. Red Teaming simulates realistic attack scenarios to evaluate how effectively an organization detects, responds to, and manages adversarial activity.

What is a Purple Team exercise?

A Purple Team exercise brings offensive and defensive teams together to improve detection capabilities, response processes, and overall security effectiveness through collaborative testing and knowledge sharing.

How long does a Red Team / Purple Team engagement typically last?

The duration depends on scope, objectives, and complexity. Engagements can range from targeted assessments to multi-week exercises designed to emulate persistent attacker activity.

Will Red Team / Purple Team exercises disrupt business operations?

Engagements are carefully planned and coordinated to minimize operational impact while still providing realistic testing conditions. Scope, objectives, and rules of engagement are established in advance.

What types of organizations benefit from Red Team / Purple Team exercises?

Organizations with mature security programs, security operations teams, incident response capabilities, or regulatory requirements often benefit most from Red Team and Purple Team exercises.

Red Team / Purple Team

Red Team and Purple Team exercises simulate real-world attack scenarios to evaluate how effectively your people, processes, and technology work together when faced with an active threat.

REALITY

Attackers don’t follow a script

Attackers adapt, change tactics, exploit weaknesses, and look for opportunities to avoid detection. Security programs need to be prepared for how attacks actually unfold.

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RISK

Security controls are only part of the equation

Many organizations know what security tools they have. Fewer understand how those tools, processes, and teams perform during a realistic attack. Without testing, gaps in visibility, communication, detection, and response often remain hidden until an actual incident occurs.

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RESPONSE

Challenge your security program

Whether operating as a Red Team to emulate attacker behavior or facilitating a Purple Team engagement to improve collaboration between offensive and defensive teams, we help organizations identify weaknesses and improve readiness.

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OUTCOME

Improve security readiness

The goal is understanding how effectively your organization detects, investigates, responds to, and learns from adversarial activity. Red Team and Purple Team exercises help strengthen security operations, improve visibility, and increase confidence in your ability to respond when it matters.

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Most organizations know how they would respond to a security incident. The problem is that security plans look very different when they're tested under pressure.

Dominion Delivers

Readiness without assumptions

Scenario development & planning

We work with your team to define objectives, identify critical assets, and develop realistic attack scenarios aligned to your environment and threat landscape.

Adversary simulation

Our team emulates attacker behavior using techniques designed to test detection, response, communication, and security controls under realistic conditions.

Collaborative Purple Teaming

We facilitate knowledge sharing between offensive and defensive teams, helping improve detection logic, response processes, and operational effectiveness.