When you bring in a red team or penetration testing partner, the way their operators think determines whether you get a standard checkbox report or a clear view of how attackers actually move through your environment. At Lares, the bar for who we put in front of clients is intentionally high because those individuals are the true test of your security posture.

Collaboration Over Isolation

Our operators do not work as isolated testers running their own playbooks. They collaborate across physical, social, and electronic attack surfaces. By sharing tradecraft and experience, every engagement benefits from the collective intelligence of the full team. On real assessments, this means multiple specialists quietly help each other chain minor issues into meaningful attack paths, rather than stopping at the first shell.

An Adversarial Mindset

We hire tenured operators who understand how attacks work under the hood, not just how to point scanners at an IP range. Lares testers know how to "live off the land," operate when common frameworks are noisy or blocked, and progress without relying on canned exploits. For our team, Domain Admin is usually a waypoint, not the goal. The objective is to show how a determined adversary could reach the data, systems, and processes that matter most to your business.

Move Your Security Program Forward

Real value comes from how well findings can be understood and applied. The same team of operators who execute attacks also explains them in plain language, maps them to operational impact, and works directly with your security and engineering teams. Our reporting is structured, mapped to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and ISACA ITAF, and focused on clear next steps so you know what to fix first and how to measure improvement over time.

How This Translates to Your Engagements

The qualities we demand in our testers dictate exactly how we run projects:

• Red Team Exercises: We emulate real adversaries across social, physical, and electronic vectors to measure how your controls, processes, and people perform under pressure.
• Purple Team Engagements: We pair our operators with your defenders in real time. Your team can see attacks unfold, tune detections, and retest immediately, turning every campaign into measurable progress instead of a one-off report.
• vCISO Advisory: The frontline intelligence gathered by our operators directly fuels our strategic guidance. Our vCISOs help you prioritize investments and build a mature security program based on real-world adversary behavior, ensuring leadership decisions are grounded in technical reality rather than just compliance checklists.

One conversation with the operators who would be testing your environment will tell you more than any sales deck ever could. If you want to see how we would approach your organization or review sample deliverables, pick a time that works for you here: https://go.lares.com/meet-with-lares