What's on the bench.
Performing Purple Team Exercise
Performs purple team exercises by coordinating red team adversary emulation with blue team detection validation using MITRE ATT&CK-mapped attack scenarios, real-time detection testing, and collaborative gap remediation. Use when SOC teams need to validate detection capabilities, improve analyst skills, and close detection gaps through structured offensive-defensive collaboration.
Performing Purple Team Atomic Testing
Executes Atomic Red Team tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, performs coverage gap analysis across the ATT&CK matrix, and runs detection validation loops to measure blue team visibility. Covers Invoke-AtomicRedTeam PowerShell execution, ATT&CK Navigator layer generation for heatmaps, Sigma rule correlation, and continuous atomic testing pipelines. Activates for requests involving purple team exercises, atomic test execution, ATT&CK coverage assessment, detection engineering validation, or adversary emulation testing.
Performing Privileged Account Access Review
Conduct systematic reviews of privileged accounts to validate access rights, identify excessive permissions, and enforce least privilege across PAM infrastructure.
Performing Privilege Escalation Assessment
Performs privilege escalation assessments on compromised Linux and Windows systems to identify paths from low-privilege access to root or SYSTEM-level control. The tester enumerates misconfigurations, vulnerable services, kernel exploits, SUID binaries, unquoted service paths, and credential stores to demonstrate the full impact of an initial compromise. Activates for requests involving privilege escalation testing, local exploitation, post-compromise escalation, or OS-level security assessment.
Performing Privacy Impact Assessment
Automates the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) workflow including data flow mapping, privacy risk scoring matrices, GDPR Article 35 DPIA and CCPA/CPRA alignment checks, data inventory cataloging, and remediation tracking. Implements the NIST Privacy Framework PRAM methodology and ICO DPIA guidance for systematic identification and mitigation of privacy risks across processing activities. Use when conducting privacy assessments for new systems, evaluating regulatory compliance posture, or building automated privacy governance programs.
Performing Power Grid Cybersecurity Assessment
This skill covers conducting cybersecurity assessments of electric power grid infrastructure including generation facilities, transmission substations, distribution systems, and energy management system (EMS) control centers. It addresses NERC CIP compliance verification, substation automation security, IEC 61850 protocol analysis, synchrophasor (PMU) network security, and the unique threat landscape targeting power grid operations as demonstrated by Industroyer/CrashOverride and related attacks.
Performing Post Quantum Cryptography Migration
Assesses organizational readiness for post-quantum cryptography migration per NIST FIPS 203/204/205 standards. Performs cryptographic inventory scanning to identify quantum-vulnerable algorithms (RSA, ECDH, ECDSA), evaluates hybrid TLS configurations with X25519MLKEM768, and validates CRYSTALS-Kyber (ML-KEM) and CRYSTALS-Dilithium (ML-DSA) readiness. Implements crypto-agility assessment using oqs-provider for OpenSSL. Use when planning or executing the transition from classical to post-quantum cryptographic algorithms across enterprise infrastructure.
Performing Plc Firmware Security Analysis
This skill covers analyzing Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) firmware for security vulnerabilities including hardcoded credentials, insecure update mechanisms, backdoor functions, memory corruption flaws, and undocumented debug interfaces. It addresses firmware extraction from common PLC platforms (Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley, Schneider Modicon), static analysis of firmware images, dynamic analysis in emulated environments, and comparison against known-good baselines to detect tampering.
Performing Physical Intrusion Assessment
Conduct authorized physical penetration testing using tailgating, badge cloning, lock bypassing, and rogue device deployment to evaluate facility security controls.
Performing Phishing Simulation With Gophish
GoPhish is an open-source phishing simulation framework used by security teams to conduct authorized phishing awareness campaigns. It provides campaign management, email template creation, landing pag
Performing Paste Site Monitoring For Credentials
Monitor paste sites like Pastebin and GitHub Gists for leaked credentials, API keys, and sensitive data dumps using automated scraping and keyword matching to detect breaches early.
Performing Packet Injection Attack
Crafts and injects custom network packets using Scapy, hping3, and Nemesis during authorized security assessments to test firewall rules, IDS detection, protocol handling, and network stack resilience against malformed and spoofed traffic.
Performing Ot Vulnerability Assessment With Claroty
This skill covers performing vulnerability assessments in OT environments using the Claroty xDome platform for comprehensive asset discovery, risk scoring, vulnerability correlation, and remediation prioritization. It addresses passive vulnerability identification through traffic analysis, active safe querying of OT devices, integration with CVE databases and ICS-CERT advisories, and risk-based prioritization that accounts for operational impact and compensating controls.
Performing Ot Network Security Assessment
This skill covers conducting comprehensive security assessments of Operational Technology (OT) networks including SCADA systems, DCS architectures, and industrial control system communication paths. It addresses the Purdue Reference Model layers, identifies IT/OT convergence risks, evaluates firewall rules between zones, and maps industrial protocol traffic (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA, EtherNet/IP) to detect misconfigurations, unauthorized connections, and attack surfaces in critical infrastructure.
Performing Osint With Spiderfoot
Automate OSINT collection using SpiderFoot REST API and CLI for target profiling, module-based reconnaissance, and structured result analysis across 200+ data sources
Performing Open Source Intelligence Gathering
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering is the first active phase of a red team engagement, where operators collect publicly available information about the target organization to identify attack s
Performing Oil Gas Cybersecurity Assessment
This skill covers conducting cybersecurity assessments specific to oil and gas facilities including upstream (exploration/production), midstream (pipeline/transport), and downstream (refining/distribution) operations. It addresses SCADA systems controlling pipeline operations, DCS for refinery process control, safety instrumented systems for hazardous processes, remote terminal units at unmanned wellhead sites, and compliance with API 1164, TSA Pipeline Security Directives, IEC 62443, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework for critical infrastructure.
Performing OAuth Scope Minimization Review
Performs OAuth 2.0 scope minimization review to identify over-permissioned third-party application integrations, excessive API scopes, unused token grants, and risky OAuth consent patterns across identity providers and SaaS platforms. Activates for requests involving OAuth scope audit, API permission review, third-party app risk assessment, or consent grant minimization.
Performing Nist Csf Maturity Assessment
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, released in February 2024, provides a comprehensive taxonomy for managing cybersecurity risk through six core Functions - Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. This skill covers conducting a maturity assessment against the CSF using Implementation Tiers to measure organizational cybersecurity posture and create improvement roadmaps.
Performing Network Traffic Analysis With Tshark
Automate network traffic analysis using tshark and pyshark for protocol statistics, suspicious flow detection, DNS anomaly identification, and IOC extraction from PCAP files
Performing Network Packet Capture Analysis
Perform forensic analysis of network packet captures (PCAP/PCAPNG) using Wireshark, tshark, and tcpdump to reconstruct network communications, extract transferred files, identify malicious traffic, and establish evidence of data exfiltration or command-and-control activity.
Performing Mobile Device Forensics With Cellebrite
Acquire and analyze mobile device data using Cellebrite UFED and open-source tools to extract communications, location data, and application artifacts.
Performing Mobile App Certificate Pinning Bypass
Bypasses SSL/TLS certificate pinning implementations in Android and iOS applications to enable traffic interception during authorized security assessments. Covers OkHttp, TrustManager, NSURLSession, and third-party pinning library bypass techniques using Frida, Objection, and custom scripts. Activates for requests involving certificate pinning bypass, SSL pinning defeat, mobile TLS interception, or proxy-resistant app testing.
Performing Memory Forensics With Volatility3 Plugins
Analyze memory dumps using Volatility3 plugins to detect injected code, rootkits, credential theft, and malware artifacts in Windows, Linux, and macOS memory images.