What is a red team operation?
Before we understand what a red team is and what its sole purpose is, it is important to first understand what a penetration test is—or in its shorter form, a pentest.
A pentest is a controlled and targeted attack on specific organizational assets. For instance, if an organization releases a new feature in its mobile application, the organization will want to check the security of the application and consider other aspects such as regulatory interests before the new feature is implemented into their production environment.
Of course, penetration tests are not just conducted on mobile applications but also on websites, network infrastructure, and more.
The main goal of a penetration test is to test an organization's assets to find as many vulnerabilities as possible. In a penetration test, practical exploitation followed by Proof of Concept (PoC) proves that an organization is vulnerable, and thus its integrity and information security...