The Red Team Report — What We Found Testing 30 Enterprise Networks in 2025

The Top 10 Findings (Ranked by Prevalence)

• #1: Weak Active Directory configurations (80% of engagements)
• #2: Excessive service account privileges (73%)
• #3: Unpatched external-facing applications (67%)
• #4: Missing network segmentation between IT and OT (60%)
• #5: Default credentials on internal systems (57%)
• #6: Inadequate logging — attacks went undetected during the test (53%)
• #7: Phishing success rate above 30% in social engineering tests (50%)
• #8: API authentication weaknesses (47%)
• #9: Cloud misconfigurations (S3 buckets, IAM policies) (43%)
• #10: Lack of incident response playbooks (40%)

The Pattern Behind the Pattern

• Most of these aren't exotic zero-days — they're hygiene failures
• The gap between "we have a policy" and "we enforce the policy"
• Why annual pen tests aren't enough — continuous assessment model

What We Recommend (The Quick-Win Security Stack)

• Top 5 controls that would have prevented 80% of findings
• Cost: less than you think. Complexity: less than you fear.

How Trufe's Red Team Operates

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• We simulate real adversaries, not scanner output
• Methodology: PTES, MITRE ATT&CK, custom TTPs per client