Agentic Red Teaming
I deploy AI agents that think like adversaries — autonomously planning and executing authorised attack strategies to find exploitable weaknesses before real attackers do. Every finding comes with clear remediation guidance.
Automated Penetration Testing
Systematic, goal-driven testing that goes beyond scripted scans.
Traditional penetration testing is expensive, time-consuming, and happens infrequently. I build red teaming agents that conduct authorised penetration testing on a continuous basis — methodically working through reconnaissance, enumeration, exploitation, and post-exploitation phases. These agents don't follow rigid scripts; they reason about what they find and adapt their approach, just as a skilled human tester would.
Goal-Oriented Attack Planning
Red teaming agents are given specific objectives — reach a particular database, access a sensitive file share, escalate from a low-privilege account to admin. They autonomously plan attack strategies, select techniques, and execute multi-step campaigns to achieve those goals, documenting every step along the way.
Web Application Testing
Agents that methodically test web applications for injection vulnerabilities, authentication bypasses, access control flaws, business logic errors, and API security issues. They understand application context — testing not just for OWASP Top 10 categories but for application-specific weaknesses that require understanding how the system is meant to work.
Network & Infrastructure Testing
Authorised agents that probe network defences, test segmentation controls, attempt lateral movement, and evaluate infrastructure hardening. They identify misconfigured services, weak protocols, missing patches, and network paths that shouldn't exist — all within a controlled, authorised scope.
API & Service Endpoint Testing
Purpose-built agents for testing API security — authentication mechanisms, authorisation controls, rate limiting, input validation, and data exposure. They systematically test every endpoint, parameter, and method, identifying issues like broken object-level authorisation and excessive data exposure that manual testing often misses.
Threat Scenario Simulation
Realistic adversary emulation tailored to your threat landscape.
I build agents that simulate specific, realistic threat scenarios relevant to your organisation and industry. Rather than running generic tests, these agents emulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of actual threat actors — testing whether your defences can detect and respond to the kinds of attacks you're most likely to face.
Insider Threat Simulation
Agents that operate from the perspective of a compromised employee account — testing what a malicious or compromised insider could access, what data they could exfiltrate, and how far they could move laterally. They evaluate whether your monitoring, DLP controls, and access restrictions would detect and contain an insider scenario.
Credential Compromise Scenarios
Starting from a set of compromised credentials — simulating a phishing success, a credential stuffing hit, or a leaked password — agents test what an attacker could achieve. They attempt privilege escalation, access sensitive systems, and evaluate whether multi-factor authentication, session controls, and monitoring would catch the intrusion.
Supply Chain Attack Emulation
Agents that simulate compromise through your supply chain — a malicious dependency update, a compromised third-party integration, or a tampered build pipeline. They test whether your integrity checks, code review processes, and monitoring would detect supply chain tampering before it reaches production.
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Purpose-built simulations that test your resilience to ransomware — without deploying actual malware. Agents evaluate backup accessibility, network segmentation effectiveness, privilege escalation paths, and lateral movement opportunities that a ransomware operator would exploit. They assess your ability to contain and recover from an encryption event.
Weakness Chaining & Remediation Reporting
Connecting the dots between findings and delivering actionable fixes.
The most valuable aspect of red teaming isn't finding individual vulnerabilities — it's demonstrating how they combine into viable attack paths. I build agents that specialise in chaining weaknesses together, proving exploitability with concrete evidence, and producing reports that your team can act on immediately.
Attack Path Visualisation
Agents that map out complete attack paths from initial access to objective — showing every step, every technique used, and every weakness exploited. These paths are visualised clearly so that stakeholders can understand exactly how an attacker would move through their environment and where to break the chain.
Defence Bypass Documentation
When agents bypass a security control — a WAF rule, an access restriction, a monitoring alert — they document exactly how. This gives your security team specific, actionable intelligence about gaps in your defensive layers, enabling targeted improvements rather than wholesale replacements.
Prioritised Remediation Guidance
Every finding comes with clear, specific remediation steps ranked by impact. The agent identifies which fixes would break the most attack paths — so your team can focus limited resources on the changes that deliver the greatest security improvement. No generic recommendations; every suggestion is tied to a demonstrated risk.
Executive & Technical Reporting
I configure agents to produce dual-audience reports — executive summaries that communicate business risk in clear terms, and technical deep-dives with reproduction steps, evidence screenshots, and specific remediation commands. Both audiences get the information they need without wading through content meant for the other.
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