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If you've received a report labeled "Red Team Assessment" and can’t help but notice it reads more like a penetration test report, you're not alone. We've seen this pattern repeatedly. Organizations invest in what they believe is a Red Team engagement, only to receive a penetration test with a different label. This deception can be more damaging than helpful as it is fundamental to your security posture that you understand the depth of assessment your organization actually received.

Not only is artificial intelligence changing how businesses operate; it's also changing how cybercriminals attack. As organizations rush to adopt AI systems, they face new security risks that traditional defenses can't handle.

TL;DR Schellman’s core value of "quality above all" means understanding your business and comprehending why you need any given compliance service. In the case of penetration tests, it's not just about counting how many vulnerabilities we find. Good pen testing gives you risk ratings that fit your actual setup, shows we understand your specific business and technology, keeps communication clear throughout the project, and provides advice you can actually use. We focus on being your security partner and helping you understand real business risk instead of just checking compliance boxes.

After nearly a decade of leading penetration testing engagements and growing our team from one tester to 43 professionals, we've learned that the questions you ask during vendor selection can determine whether you'll receive genuine security value and a successful engagement, or just frustrating checkbox exercises.

Anytime you're scrolling through cybersecurity news, you’re likely to come across another headline about a data breach featuring quotes from the latest targeted company explaining why their customers’ personal information is now floating around the dark web. And then that familiar knot in your stomach creeps in asking the same question: "Could this happen to us?"

Need for Secure LLM Deployments As businesses increasingly integrate AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs) into their operations via GenAI (Generative AI) solutions, ensuring the security of these systems is on the top of everyone’s mind. "AI Red Teaming" (which is closer to Penetration Testing than a Red Team Assessment) is a methodology to identify vulnerabilities within GenAI deployments proactively. By leveraging industry-recognized frameworks, we can help your organization verify that your LLM infrastructure and execution is done securely.

For as long as the concept of cybersecurity has been around, much of the focus has centered on sophisticated technical controls—firewalls, password strength, network segmentation, endpoint protection, encryption, etc. And while implementation and regular testing of all these measures does better safeguard your organization, you also need to secure your people. In that, a social engineering campaign can help immensely.

Did you recently implement a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature within your application and now your customers are starting to ask for AI-specific penetration tests? Are you curious as to how an assessment like that would work? As with all these exercises, it starts with scoping.