Red team

The goals of the red team are quite different from the blue team. The red team focuses on continuously attacking the organization's systems and networks. You may be wondering why a team with such objectives would even exist. As mentioned earlier in Chapter 1, Introduction to Kali NetHunter, hackers are always trying gain to unauthorized access into another person’s or company’s systems for various reasons. However, unauthorized access into another system or network is illegal as it is intrusive. Organizations need to continue improving their security posture due to the growing threat landscape in the digital world.

The red team is either external contractors or an in-house team whose objective is to continuously simulate real-world cyberattacks. This is to ensure all vulnerabilities are discovered and to determine how each can be exploited by a real, malicious hacker. The red team are like the black hat hackers who are contracted by an organization to discover all hidden vulnerabilities, exploit any flaws, and provide a detailed report at the end of their testing.