ISAUnited's
Red Team
Intelligence

Focuses on how adversaries gain an initial network foothold, expand access through internal reconnaissance and lateral movement, and reach mission outcomes. Highlights segmentation gaps, permissive pathways, and control failures that enable spread across hybrid environments.

Covers how threat actors misuse cloud identities, permissions, and management plane capabilities to gain persistent control and expand access. Emphasizes exposure conditions such as weak identity governance, over-permissioned roles, and insufficient logging across cloud services.

Addresses how adversaries compromise compute platforms and workloads, then maintain presence through persistence mechanisms and privileged execution. Emphasizes hardened baselines, workload identity, runtime integrity signals, and prevention of internal spread from compromised hosts.

Explains how adversaries exploit trust boundaries in applications through injection, insecure authentication flows, and weak authorization. Emphasizes conditions that enable execution, data access, and privilege escalation, as well as outcomes that degrade integrity and business trust.

Covers how adversaries locate high-value data, expand access, and move data to external destinations to complete mission objectives. Emphasizes exposure conditions such as weak classification, excessive access, poor egress controls, and gaps in monitoring across data stores.

Focuses on how adversaries obtain credentials, bypass authentication, and escalate privileges to gain durable control of enterprise identities. Emphasizes identity exposure conditions, privileged-access weaknesses, and the operational outcomes of high-assurance account takeover.

Explains how vulnerabilities are discovered, exploited, and converted into reliable intrusion pathways that support foothold, escalation, and mission completion. Emphasizes exposure conditions such as unmanaged attack surface, weak patch governance, and lack of validation of mitigation effectiveness.

Covers how adversaries reduce defender visibility, weaken telemetry, and interfere with response workflows to maintain presence and complete mission objectives. Emphasizes exposure conditions, including logging gaps, weak correlation, limited containment automation, and fragmented response ownership.

Explains how adversaries obtain or misuse keys, certificates, and cryptographic trust material to bypass protections and impersonate trusted systems. Emphasizes key lifecycle weaknesses, trust boundary misconfiguration, and outcomes that undermine confidentiality and integrity.

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Covers how adversaries compromise build and release processes, poison dependencies, and introduce persistent access through trusted delivery mechanisms. Emphasizes exposure conditions in pipeline permissions, artifact trust, dependency governance, and release validation that enable stealthy mission completion.