Real-World Cyber Attack Simulation for Global Trading Organisation

At the end of the simulated attack period, Redscan’s Red Team delivered a comprehensive report for the CEO and board of directors, highlighting all of the information security issues detected and ranking them according to the level of risk to the business. The Red Team provided clear guidance on how to mitigate the risk, recommending specific solutions, policies or training courses as appropriate. As a result, the business is now implementing new measures to better protect its data, employees and customers. The CEO and board members now have a far more enlightened view of cyber security weaknesses across the business and can better meet their information security obligations. They can provide documentary evidence that information security is of high priority; that they are aware of the risks; and that they are taking the appropriate action to mitigate them.

The Red Team identified a particular exposure to phishing attacks, which could be used to acquire remote log-in credentials for IT systems and access to client transactional data.

Failures in the company’s access permissions were identified, which could be exploited to disrupt multi-million dollar trading transactions.

Configuration issues in intrusion detection systems and a large number of false alerts meant that the company was unable to detect Redscan’s deliberately “noisy” attempts to break in.