NCC Group, a global cyber security company, has achieved assurance under the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Adversary Simulation (CyAS) scheme. The scheme recognizes the technical expertise of NCC Group’s Red Team specialists and its ability to deliver realistic, intelligence-led attack simulations to NCSC standards.
The NCSC’s CyAS scheme helps organizations identify assured cyber security providers capable of testing their resilience against realistic cyber attacks.
Providers approved under the scheme are assessed against the NCSC’s defined methodology and standards for delivering cyber adversary simulation engagements.
These exercises replicate the techniques and behaviors of sophisticated threat actors, allowing organizations to evaluate how effectively their people, processes and technology can prevent, detect and respond to cyber attacks.
The scheme is particularly relevant to large organizations, critical national infrastructure operators and government organizations seeking to strengthen their cyber resilience.
Independent assurance of NCC Group’s Red Team expertise
Red Team exercises go beyond traditional security testing by simulating realistic attack scenarios to assess how an organization’s security controls, detection capabilities and incident response processes perform against sophisticated threats.
Through these engagements, organizations can:
- Test their cyber resilience: Understand how effectively their organization can prevent, detect and respond to realistic cyber attacks.
- Identify security weaknesses: Uncover potential gaps across people, processes and technology.
- Validate detection and response capabilities: Assess whether security teams can identify and respond to sophisticated attacker activity.
- Inform security improvements: Use findings to prioritize remediation, strengthen defenses and support cyber risk management decisions.
Damien Childs, CTO at NCC Group, said: “Achieving assurance under the NCSC’s Cyber Adversary Simulation scheme is an important recognition of the technical expertise and capabilities of our Red Team. Crucially, this isn’t simply about demonstrating our ability to simulate sophisticated cyber attacks. It’s about providing organizations with independent confidence that our approach meets the standards set by the NCSC. As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations need to understand not just where their vulnerabilities lie, but how effectively they can detect and respond to a determined attacker. Realistic adversary simulation plays an important role in identifying those gaps and helping organizations build stronger, more resilient defenses.”
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