Red Cell Security Operations Team

Give us a parking spot across the street and a few days and we'll know your building better than half the people who badge in every morning. When the shift change happens. Which door gets propped at 1700 so the smokers don't have to walk around from the front door. How many guards actually work a Sunday versus how many the roster says. What sits on the loading dock and how long it sits there before anyone moves it. None of that is clever. It's just patience and a line of sight. It is also the...

A while back we ran an advance for a principal who was certain his risk started the moment he stepped out his front door. Route was tight. Venue was swept. The detail was sharp and the man leading it was good. Then we asked what was installed on his vehicles and got a shrug. A dealer had bolted an aftermarket alarm under the dash years earlier, nobody on the team knew it was there, and not one person could tell us what it talked to or who else had ever touched its settings. That shrug is the...

Earlier this year attackers went after Amazon's cloud in the Middle East and never touched a server. They used drones. They hit the power and the supporting infrastructure the facilities depend on, damaged nearby systems around Bahrain, and knocked capacity offline across multiple availability zones. No zero-day. No stolen credential. No malware. Just the oldest idea in warfare, which is that you break the thing your enemy leans on and let the rest fall over on its own. We have spent years on...