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Red Team 101 – An Introduction 1200 630 Lares Labs

Red Team 101 – An Introduction

Red Team 101 explains how Lares uses objective based, adversary emulation exercises to test whether mature security programs can detect, investigate, and contain real-world attacks across social, physical, and electronic attack surfaces.

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The Lowdown on Lateral Movement 1200 630 Lares Labs

The Lowdown on Lateral Movement

Defenders think in lists, but attackers think in graphs. In this post, the Lares Labs team breaks down the mechanics of lateral movement and explores how you can leverage Symmetrical Task Framing to outmaneuver threat actors navigating your network.

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How Lares Thinks About Mythos-Class AI in Offensive Security 1200 630 Andrew Heller

How Lares Thinks About Mythos-Class AI in Offensive Security

Mythos-class AI is changing how vulnerabilities are found, not replacing real adversaries. Learn how Lares views Mythos, AI-assisted testing, and what security teams should do next.

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What We Look For in a Penetration Tester at Lares (And Why Clients Care) 1200 630 Andrew Heller

What We Look For in a Penetration Tester at Lares (And Why Clients Care)

What is the difference between a standard security report and a true adversarial assessment? It all comes down to the operators. See what we look for at Lares.

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WEBINAR: OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: Threats in the Wild 150 150 Andrew Heller

WEBINAR: OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: Threats in the Wild

Artificial intelligence is no longer just answering our questions. It is taking action. We have moved from simple chatbots to Agentic AI applications that can reason, plan, invoke external tools, and execute complex multi-step tasks autonomously. While this autonomy is incredibly powerful, it introduces an entirely new attack surface that traditional security frameworks are simply…

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WEBINAR: Stop Guessing, Start Proving: Why You Should Combine TTX and TTP Replay 150 150 Andrew Heller

WEBINAR: Stop Guessing, Start Proving: Why You Should Combine TTX and TTP Replay

Watch our Lares webinar to learn why combining Tabletop Exercises (TTX) with TTP Replay is the ultimate win-win for evidence-backed security testing.

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The TTX + TTP Replay FAQ: Executive and Practitioner Guide to Evidence-Backed Cyber Defense Validation 150 150 Andrew Heller

The TTX + TTP Replay FAQ: Executive and Practitioner Guide to Evidence-Backed Cyber Defense Validation

Stop guessing and start proving. Explore our comprehensive FAQ to learn how integrating Tabletop Exercises (TTX) and live-fire TTP Replay exposes detection gaps, validates security investments, and builds an evidence-backed cyber defense.

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The Visibility Gap: 5 Purple Team Tests Your EDR is Probably Missing 2464 1856 Andrew Heller

The Visibility Gap: 5 Purple Team Tests Your EDR is Probably Missing

In modern cybersecurity, there is a dangerous assumption that “more telemetry equals more security.” Most leaders feel confident because they have agents on every endpoint and a SIEM ingesting millions of events. However, having a tool is not the same as having a detection. At Lares, we have provided adversarial coaching and testing since 2008.…

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The Top 5 Security Threats CISOs Actually Care About in 2026 1200 630 Andrew Heller

The Top 5 Security Threats CISOs Actually Care About in 2026

This report breaks down five practical threat categories impacting CISOs in 2026, from Agentic AI to Deepfake fraud, that Lares adversarial engineers encounter in the wild.

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What Attackers Target First in Most Environments 150 150 Andrew Heller

What Attackers Target First in Most Environments

Attackers do not breach environments by guessing where the most sensitive systems are. They begin with the simplest, most reliable footholds. Across industries, across cloud providers, across company sizes, three initial weaknesses appear in nearly every intrusion Lares analyzes. This blog outlines what attackers target first and how those footholds become full compromises. 1. Identity…

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