Your Red Team Is Proving Access. It Should Be Disrupting Adversaries.
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A red team spends three weeks crafting a novel lateral movement chain. The report is impressive — multi-stage, creative, technically sophisticated. But no real adversary operates that way, and existing detections already cover the behavior. The defensive improvements from the engagement? Zero.
This is the failure mode most red teams don't talk about: optimizing for clever access instead of adversary disruption.