The Four Phases of Offensive Security Teams

For brevity, I will be using the term “partner” to refer to the customer, Defensive Team, IT Team, or other direct consumers of the Offensive Team’s output. In my experience, offensive security teams, be them internal or external (consultants/contractors), the relationship they have with companies falls into one of four phases: The “Adversarial” phase The “Hammer” phase The “Friendship” phase The “Adversarial Friendship” phase Adversarial The first phase is that of adversaries. Neither party wan...

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