Engagement Model
How a typical Ingress Labs operation runs.
Every engagement is built to simulate a credible threat actor—with clear boundaries and documentation. You get the realism of an attacker with the audit trail of a professional security firm.
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Phase 0 — Scoping & Threat Modeling
Align on reality, not assumptions.
We map your business, assets, and realistic adversaries. We define objectives, constraints, and rules of engagement—including hard stops, escalation contacts, and out-of-scope areas.
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Phase 1 — Recon & OSINT
Build the attacker’s playbook.
Open-source intelligence, exposure mapping, and enumeration of assets: staff, vendors, external services, and infrastructure. No interaction yet—just building the kill chain.
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Phase 2 — Ingress Attempts
Initial access against people, buildings, and systems.
Carefully controlled attempts at physical entry, social engineering, wireless access, and remote footholds. Every action is logged, time-stamped, and mapped to your defenses.
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Phase 3 — Expansion & Objective
Operate like a motivated attacker.
Once inside, we test how far we can realistically go: privilege escalation, lateral movement, and pursuit of agreed objectives (data, systems, or key business impact).
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Phase 4 — Debrief & Remediation
Turn the story into a fixable plan.
You receive a high-level executive narrative, detailed technical findings, and a prioritized remediation roadmap. We can brief leadership, work directly with defenders, or both.
Rules of Engagement & Safety Controls
- • Signed authorization and “Get Out of Jail Free” letters for operators.
- • Defined escalation paths and emergency contacts.
- • Clear hard boundaries: no destructive actions, no real-world harm.
- • Full logging of access, timestamps, and proof-of-concept artifacts.
To request a scoped proposal, visit Contact and include your rough size, industry, and timeline.
Local Presence, Regional Reach
Many of our engagements start with a simple question from a local team in northeast Alabama: “How would someone really come after us?” From there we design scoped operations that fit your risk tolerance, business constraints, and regulatory landscape.
We are physically based near Fort Payne in Dekalb County and frequently perform on-site work across nearby towns and cities — including Rainsville, Henagar, Scottsboro, Mentone, Collinsville, Fyffe, and Huntsville.
When it makes sense, we extend those same methodologies to clients across Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. If you are within roughly a 200-mile radius of northeast Alabama and need an adversary who can show up in person, Ingress Labs can operate on the ground. Learn more on our local cybersecurity in Fort Payne page.