Emulate the adversary. Measure the defence.
A pentest finds the holes. A red team walks through them — and sees if anyone's watching.
Goal-based operations that test people, process, and technology as one system — mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and graded on whether you detect and respond, not just on what's broken.
70+
Banking-specific test types
15
Attack domains, one coverage map
ATT&CK
Every TTP mapped, timed & scored
Objective
Reach & exfiltrate core banking data — external start
Assumed-breach option · white-cell active · non-destructive
Elapsed
62h
C2 beacon
Healthy
Blue-team alerts
0
ATT&CK detected
Operates to
Why a red team
A scan proves the locks exist. Not that you'd hear the break-in.
Point-in-time testing certifies controls. It doesn't answer the question a regulator and a board actually ask — whether a determined adversary could reach the crown jewels, and whether anyone would notice in time to stop them.
The green dashboard
A clean vulnerability scan says the doors are locked. It says nothing about whether you'd hear one being forced. Regulators no longer accept a scan as proof — they want evidence that detection works.
The untested blue team
Your SOC, your EDR, and your runbooks have never faced a patient, goal-driven adversary. A red team is the live fire drill for the whole detect-and-respond chain — people included.
The board's question
“Could a determined attacker reach our crown jewels, and would we catch them?” A point-in-time pentest can't answer it. A full-scope, objective-based operation can.
Pentest vs red team
Penetration test
- Breadth of vulnerabilities
- Usually announced
- Measures controls
- Fixed scope
- “What's broken?”
Red team
- Depth to one objective
- Covert by default
- Measures detection & response
- Goal, not scope
- “Would you notice?”
Need every vulnerability found and fixed? That's VAPT. Need to know if you'd survive a real intrusion? That's this — and mature programs run both.
What we run
Eight ways to emulate the adversary.
From a full-scope covert operation to a side-by-side purple team — scoped to the threat you actually face and the assurance you need to show.
Full-scope red team
Objective-driven operations (“reach and exfiltrate the crown jewels”) testing people, process, and technology as one continuous chain.
Threat-led testing (TLPT)
Intelligence-led, covert, TIBER-EU-style scenarios adapted for Indonesian institutions and OJK direction.
Adversary emulation
Replay the TTPs of the actors that actually target you — Carbanak, Lazarus, and FIN7 for banks; sector-specific groups elsewhere.
Assumed breach
Start from a foothold and validate the segregation of your highest-value zones — core banking and the SWIFT secure zone.
Purple team
Run attacks side by side with your SOC, building and tuning detections in real time. Every missed TTP becomes a new rule.
Physical & social engineering
Spear-phishing, vishing and helpdesk bypass, tailgating and badge cloning, USB drops, and branch or data-centre intrusion.
Cloud attack paths
Identity abuse, misconfiguration, and lateral movement across cloud-hosted core and SaaS — where the modern perimeter actually is.
Ransomware & resilience
Controlled detonation-path and recovery validation: backup immutability, DR/BCP failover, and channel availability under load.
The campaign
One objective, eight phases — every action mapped to ATT&CK.
We run the full adversary lifecycle, from a covert start to a graded debrief. Each phase is tagged to the MITRE ATT&CK tactics your defences are supposed to catch.
Scope & Rules of Engagement
Authorization · White-cell
Objectives, crown jewels, deconfliction, legal authorization, and safe-words agreed with a small white-cell — before anything starts.
Threat intelligence & targeting
Reconnaissance · Resource Development
OSINT and intel select the adversary to emulate and build the scenario. Infrastructure — C2, redirectors, domains — is stood up covertly.
Initial access
Initial Access · Execution
Phishing, an external exploit, or a physical foothold — whichever the emulated actor would actually use to get in.
Foothold & persistence
Persistence · Defense Evasion · C2
Establish resilient command-and-control, survive reboots, and stay below the alert threshold.
Escalate & move
Priv-Esc · Credential Access · Lateral Movement
Harvest credentials, escalate, and move laterally toward the objective — the phase most defences miss.
Actions on objective
Collection · Exfiltration · Impact
Reach the crown jewels, prove impact, and simulate exfiltration — safely, non-destructively, and fully logged.
Detection & response measurement
Blue-team scorecard
With your SOC: what fired, when, and what was missed. Time to first detection, MTTD, MTTR, and percentage of TTPs caught.
Report, purple debrief & retest
Remediation · Replay
Attack narrative, ATT&CK heat map, and a remediation roadmap — then we replay the chain to verify the gaps are closed.
Frameworks & mandates
Threat-led by method. Board-ready by design.
Every engagement runs to recognized offensive standards and produces evidence against the regulations that mandate testing — one operation, many mandates satisfied.
The deliverable
Not a finding list — a graded attack story.
You get the narrative of exactly how we reached the objective, every step mapped to ATT&CK and timestamped against what your blue team saw. The scorecard turns “we passed the pentest” into a number: how much of the attack you actually caught.
- Objective-based attack narrative
- Detection & response scorecard — MTTD, MTTR, % of TTPs caught
- ATT&CK coverage heat map
- Prioritized remediation roadmap + purple-team debrief
- Replay retest to verify closure — included
Red team engagement
Operation · Bank
Time to 1st detect
62h
TTPs executed
34
TTPs detected
26%
Objective
Reached
ATT&CK coverage — detected vs missed
Verdict: objective achievable from an external position; detection gaps concentrated in credential access and lateral movement.
Announced or unannounced
It starts with a scoping session, not a scan.
We define the objective and the rules of engagement with a small white-cell, agree the safe-words and deconfliction line, then run the full lifecycle — and replay it after you remediate.
By industry
Tested against the adversaries that target you.
Red teaming is only useful when it emulates your real threat model. Targeting is intelligence-led and tuned to the sector — deepest in banking, where the mandates and the money concentrate.
Banking & Financial Services
The primary target and our deepest specialization. Core banking, payment switches, SWIFT, and mobile channels — emulating Carbanak, Lazarus, and FIN7 against OJK, BI, PCI DSS 11.4, and SWIFT CSP mandates.
Government & Defence
Nation-state adversary emulation against sensitive and classified systems, run by cleared operators with the discretion the mission requires.
Critical Infrastructure & Energy
Safety-first IT-to-OT pivots that stop at the process boundary — emulating OT-capable actors without touching production control. Pairs with our SCADA/OT practice.
Telecommunications
Subscriber data, signalling, and network integrity across a large, distributed attack surface with real subscriber impact.
Healthcare
Ransomware readiness, patient-data exposure, and availability under attack — where downtime is a clinical risk, not just an outage.
Technology & Fintech
Cloud-native attack paths, API and identity abuse, and product-security emulation for platforms that are themselves the infrastructure.
Why Zentara
Not a scan-and-report exercise.
A hybrid offensive practice built for institutions where downtime has national consequences — automated tooling backed by manual exploitation from certified operators, every finding validated, retest included.
We run our own SOC
We attack the way we defend. Operating a 24/7 SOC means we know exactly where detection breaks — because we sit on the other side of it every day.
Intel-driven targeting
ZEN iNTEL threat intelligence selects the adversary and builds the scenario, so you're tested against the actors that actually target your sector.
Zero false-positive policy
Every finding is manually validated and reproducible before it reaches your team — the same standard as our VAPT practice.
Certified operators
Engagements are run by certified red teamers — CRTA, OSCP, CEH, and CISSP — not automated tooling with a report generator.
Banking-native scenarios
TTPs modeled on the actors that target payment and SWIFT systems, not a generic enterprise checklist.
Dual-layer reporting
A board-ready narrative of what happened and what it means, plus an engineer-ready technical track mapped to ATT&CK.
Purple debrief & retest
The blue team gets a training event, not just a report — and we replay the chain after you remediate, to verify closure.
Sovereign positioning
Indonesia-based and fluent in OJK, BI, and BSSN expectations, operating from Jakarta and Singapore.
Pairs with
Red team is one move in the whole game.
Build the program
Pairs well with
VAPT — Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
Find and fix every vulnerability across the estate — the breadth to the red team's depth.
Managed SOC
The blue team a red team trains. We test the detection we also operate.
Cyber Threat Research & Executive Briefings
The intelligence that selects the adversary and builds the scenario.
Incident Response & Digital Forensics
When the intrusion is real — the team that responds, on standby.
FAQ
Straight answers on red teaming
The questions security and risk leaders ask before an engagement. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.
A penetration test is about breadth — find and prove as many vulnerabilities as possible in a defined scope, usually announced, and measure your controls. A red team is about a single objective — reach the crown jewels the way a real adversary would, covertly, and measure whether your people and technology detect and respond. A pentest asks “what's broken?” A red team asks “would you even notice?” They're complementary: most mature programs run VAPT for coverage and a red team to test the whole detect-and-respond chain.
Assume breach. Then prove you'd catch it.
A goal-based operation, run by certified operators who defend for a living — with a scorecard your board and your regulator can read. Start with a scoping session.