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Realistic pressure
Use authorized adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures that reflect how a determined attacker actually behaves.
A different outcome for adversary simulation
Attack realistically.
Teach deliberately.
Make defenders stronger.
Silver Teaming™ uses real-world adversary tactics to expose risk while deliberately creating opportunities for employees to recognize suspicious behavior, challenge it, report it, and win.
Education, not exploitation. Improvement, not humiliation.
The core idea
A red-team exercise should prove more than how people fail.
Traditional adversary simulations can be excellent at demonstrating how far an attacker can get. Silver Teaming adds another required outcome: the exercise must also strengthen the humans who defend the organization.
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A fair chance to catch it
Design at least one meaningful opportunity for an employee to notice, question, verify, report, or interrupt the activity.
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A defender win
Recognize successful defensive behavior and turn the interaction into a memorable, positive teachable moment.
The Silver Team difference
Success is not measured only by compromise.
“I don’t do red team engagements, I create teachable moments.”
— Jayson E. StreetWhat gets measured
Behavior that improves resilience.
RecognitionDid someone notice that something was wrong?
VerificationDid they validate the person, request, or situation?
ChallengeDid they ask the uncomfortable but necessary question?
ReportingDid they know where and how to escalate?
RecoveryIf they initially complied, did they recognize and recover?
ReinforcementWas good defensive behavior acknowledged and strengthened?
Make bad guys have bad days