Security Consultancy: Red Team Overflow and Silent Partner Support
Professional ServicesOrg size: 10–200 consultantsFocus: Partner Augmentation2–6 week project windows
Provided discreet offensive testing capacity for a consultancy with tight timelines, delivering white-labeled findings and engineer-ready evidence.
Challenge
A security consultancy needed additional offensive capacity on short notice for multiple client engagements, without expanding internal headcount or changing how they communicate with their clients.
Approach
- • Aligned on scope, rules of engagement, and reporting format to match the consultancy’s delivery standards.
- • Executed targeted adversarial testing modules (identity, cloud posture, phishing simulations, and physical ingress) as requested.
- • Delivered evidence packages, reproduction steps, and clean remediation guidance suitable for white-label use.
- • Maintained low-friction coordination and predictable status updates to avoid burdening the primary engagement team.
Outcomes
- • Enabled the consultancy to meet delivery timelines without sacrificing depth or quality of offensive validation.
- • Improved report usability with clear evidence and prioritized remediation steps clients could act on quickly.
- • Established a repeatable overflow model for future engagements with consistent communication patterns.