A crack team assembles and breaks into a top secret military base or corporate headquarters - you've probably seen it in a film or on TV a dozen

Meet the team paid to break into top-secret bases

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2024-10-13 01:00:02

A crack team assembles and breaks into a top secret military base or corporate headquarters - you've probably seen it in a film or on TV a dozen times.

Plenty of firms offer to test computer systems by attempting to remotely hack into them. That's called White Hat Hacking.

It says hostile states seeking disruption and chaos are a real threat and sells its Red Team capability to government, critical infrastructure, and defence sector clients.

Greg, the team leader, served in the engineering and intelligence arms of the British Army, studying the digital capabilities of potential enemies.

The attack is about gaining access. The objective might be to stop a process from working, such as the core of a nuclear power plant.

Charlie spent 12 years in military intelligence, his techniques include studying commercial satellite imagery of a site, and scanning job ads to work out what type of people work there.

“We start from the edges of the target, staying away. Then we start to move into the target area, even looking at how people who work there dress.”