Red Teaming · Adeptus Cyber Solutions

Red Teaming & Offensive
Cyberspace Operations.

Multi-domain offensive operations that measure how defenses perform. ACS plans and executes authorized red team engagements across cyber and physical domains, then documents the results as evidence your program can act on.

Provenance

Red teaming built on cross-domain policy bypass testing.

ACS personnel developed offensive test methods and purpose-built tooling while supporting policy bypass testing of cross-domain solutions at ITEC at AFRL Rome under contract through defense prime contractors. The work combined reverse engineering, authorized adversarial activity, and findings measured against NIST 800-53.

That test and evaluation background shapes current ACS engagements: threat-representative activity, evidence-backed findings, and reporting written for the people responsible for remediation and investment decisions.

The full cross-domain foundation is described on the Expertise page.

What Shapes ACS Offensive Work

✓  Reverse engineering before exploitation when the target requires deeper characterization
✓  Purpose-built test tooling when standard assessment methods cannot answer the question
✓  Methodology aligned to OWASP and MITRE ATT&CK
✓  Findings mapped to impact, evidence, and remediation decisions
✓  Reporting for technical teams, program leadership, and assessors

Credentials and clearance detail are consolidated on the Expertise page.

Capabilities

Offensive operations across domains.

ACS delivers the full arc of a red team engagement, from reconnaissance and attack planning through execution, and into the assessment reporting that makes the result useful.

Offensive Cyberspace Operations

Planning and execution of offensive cyber activity against authorized targets, including exploit development and analysis of vectors that scanning and signature-based tooling may not surface. ACS combines established assessment methods with deeper characterization when the target warrants it.

Offensive Test Tool & Implant Development

ACS personnel have served as principal investigators and developers for purpose-built offensive cyber test tooling, including steganographic test data used to evaluate detection and filtering capability. Tool and implant development is scoped to authorized assessment objectives and used within the engagement at hand.

Vulnerability Assessment

Identification, validation, and prioritization of exploitable weakness across applications, interfaces, infrastructure, and configuration. Findings are validated through exploitation where authorized, so your team remediates confirmed risk instead of triaging scanner output.

Reconnaissance & Attack Planning

Active and passive reconnaissance to build an accurate picture of exposed attack surface, followed by structured attack planning that ties engagement objectives to threat-representative paths, so the operation tests the risks your program is built to address.

Physical Security Assessment

Assessment of the physical controls protecting information systems: facility reconnaissance, access control and badge handling, tailgating, lock bypass, covert entry, and social engineering. Physical access can bypass logical controls that appear effective when evaluated in isolation. ACS tests both domains when the approved scope requires it.

Blue Team Assessment & Evaluation

Red team activity used deliberately as a measurement instrument, exercising detection, alerting, escalation, and response so a program can document what its defensive capability caught, missed, and reported. This is red teaming in service of evaluation, and it is where ACS’s offensive and T&E practices meet.

Penetration Testing

Testing the surfaces your systems expose.

Not every program needs a full-scope red team operation. ACS also performs scoped penetration testing against individual surfaces, using the same methodology and the same reporting standard.

SURFACE 01

Web Application

OWASP-aligned testing of authentication, session handling, access control, input validation, and business logic, including flaws automated scanning may miss.

SURFACE 02

API

Authentication and authorization testing, object-level access control, input handling, rate limiting, and data exposure across REST and service interfaces.

SURFACE 03

Network

External and internal network testing, including exposed service enumeration, configuration weakness, segmentation validation, credential exposure, and lateral movement paths.

SURFACE 04

Mobile

Application and device testing across mobile platforms, including local data handling, transport security, and the interface between application and backend service.

SURFACE 05

Physical

On-site assessment of facility and access controls, executed under written authorization with defined rules of engagement.

TAK Ecosystem

Offensive security testing designed for TAK environments.

General penetration testing can miss the features that make a TAK deployment distinct: a persistent, trusted, machine-to-machine data fabric with its own enrollment model, PKI, and federation trust relationships.

ACS personnel have built across TAK Server, ATAK, iTAK, TAK Aware, and custom plugins. That experience informs security testing of trust boundaries, enrollment, federation, and plugin behavior.

TAK-Specific Test Coverage

✓  CoT stream injection and message spoofing
✓  Unauthorized device enrollment
✓  Certificate and PKI abuse, including misconfigured certificate authorities
✓  Federation trust chain abuse across connected servers
✓  ATAK and iTAK plugin vulnerability assessment

Methodology

Offensive work, run so the results hold up.

Government programs evaluate red team work on whether the operation is threat-representative, whether it is executed safely, and whether the results are documented defensibly. ACS treats each as an explicit engagement objective.

STEP 01

Authorization & Scope

Written authorization, defined targets, and explicit exclusions agreed before any activity begins. Nothing is in scope by implication.

STEP 02

Rules of Engagement

Agreed ROE covering permitted techniques, operating hours, data handling and retention, and the conditions under which the team stops.

STEP 03

Deconfliction

Named points of contact and a live channel throughout reduce the risk that authorized activity is treated as an uncontrolled incident, while preserving the exercise conditions defined in the rules of engagement.

STEP 04

Reporting

Findings delivered with evidence, impact, and reproducible steps, prioritized for remediation and briefed to both technical and leadership audiences.

STEP 05

Retest

Verification that remediation closed the finding, rather than moved it.

When To Bring ACS In

Engagements built around a decision your program needs to make.

Measure Defensive Capability

Exercise detection, alerting, escalation, and response against approved threat-representative activity.

Characterize High-Risk Attack Paths

Go beyond scanner output when applications, interfaces, infrastructure, or physical controls require deeper analysis.

Own a Defined Offensive Work Package

Support a prime or program office with scope, rules of engagement, execution, reporting, and retest as one accountable package.

Related Capability

Offensive work does not stand alone.

Reverse Engineering

Characterize software, protocols, and integrated systems before or during offensive assessment.

Explore Reverse Engineering →

Test & Evaluation

Use authorized adversarial activity inside a planned, traceable evaluation process.

Explore Test & Evaluation →

Get Started

Measure how your defenses perform.

Tell us what you need assessed, what you are required to demonstrate, and what constraints you are operating under. ACS will scope an engagement that produces evidence you can use.