Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

Red team

The goals of the red team are quite different from the blue team. The red team focuses on continuously attacking the organization's systems and networks. You may be wondering why a team with such objectives would even exist. As mentioned earlier in Chapter 1, Introduction to Kali NetHunter, hackers are always trying gain to unauthorized access into another person’s or company’s systems for various reasons. However, unauthorized access into another system or network is illegal as it is intrusive. Organizations need to continue improving their security posture due to the growing threat landscape in the digital world.

The red team is either external contractors or an in-house team whose objective is to continuously simulate real-world ...