ADVENT IM LIMITED
Red Team Covert Exercise (Red Team Testing/Physical Penetration Test)
Red Teaming exercise for organisations wanting intelligence-led physical-penetration-testing (PPT). Sometimes labelled ‘Black Teaming’, Red Team Assessments are designed to penetration test an organisation’s physical premises by engineering real-life scenarios that tests physical security measures, policies and procedures against real-world specific threats utilising social engineering and intelligence-led information accessible to hackers.
Features
- Remote Project Initiation: Establishing Clear Testing Scope and Boundaries
- Leveraging Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to Uncover Exploitation Vectors
- Pre-testing Passive Reconnaissance Activities to Identify Actual Vulnerabilities
- Collaborative Team Testing Reducing Risk of Recognition
- Active Covert Reconnaissance to Exploit One-Off Opportunities/ Vulnerabilities
- In-depth Observational Reporting with Risk-Prioritised Mitigation Recommendations
- Enhanced Documentation with Photographic Evidence to Support Findings
- Non-Brute Force Techniques Ensuring Non-Disruptive Testing
- Dual-Phase Assessment: Threat Intelligence (TI-OSINT) and Physical Penetration Test (PT)
Benefits
- Real-world hacker scenario testing utilising actual threat intelligence
- Analysis is outcome-driven by genuine weaknesses/ exploited gaps in security
- Strategic, cost-effective cybersecurity recommendations tailored to maximise your ROI
- UK-based, SC-cleared cybersecurity professionals: ensuring high trust and compliance standards
- Enables swift remediation of exploited security practices
- Bespoke cybersecurity solutions: tailored to fit your requirements
- Team-testing increases the success rate of testing outcomes
- Independent, vendor-agnostic security assessments providing objective and unbiased insights
- Extensive experience with public sector security protocols
- NPSA/CPNI certified, home office trained with tactical insights from ex-military
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
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Contact
ADVENT IM LIMITED
Julia McCarron
Telephone: 0121 559 6699
Email: bestpractice@advent-im.co.uk
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Security Services
- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Security quality assurance (QA) and testing
- Other
Service scope
- Service constraints
- One full day consists of 7.5 hours exclusive of lunch and travel. Working week is considered as Monday to Friday exclusive of national holidays. Weekends are charged at twice the standard day rate. Standard office opening hours are 08:30 to 17:30 Monday to Friday exclusive of national holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- All email correspondence to be acknowledged within 1 working day of receipt or by the end of the next working day if the query is received during a weekend, with an estimated date/time for any queries to be resolved.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- We are not providers or cloud software or hosting platforms so do not provide support in the traditional technical sense via a support desk. We do however provide consultancy support to our clients as part of our service delivery. We are available via Email, Teams, Phone, Onsite 9-5 Mon- Fri excluding national holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year. Support is dependent upon the nature of the requirement.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Security architect | £1,200.00 | £1,500.00 |
| Lead security architect | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Principal security architect | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate solution architect | £980.00 | £1,200.00 |
| Solution architect | £1,200.00 | £1,500.00 |
| Senior solution architect | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Lead solution architect | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal solution architect | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
Chief digital and data roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Chief information security officer | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
Cyber security roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Lead cyber security audit and assurance | £1,200.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security audit and assurance | £1,300.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,100.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Lead cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,300.00 | £1,700.00 |
| Principal cyber security governance and risk manager | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security monitoring | £1,025.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Lead cyber security monitoring | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security monitoring | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber incident response | £1,025.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Lead cyber security incident response | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security incident response | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security vulnerability management | £1,025.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Lead cyber security vulnerability management | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security vulnerability management | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security digital forensics | £1,250.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Lead cyber security digital forensics | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security digital forensics | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security testing | £1,025.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Lead cyber security penetration testing | £1,100.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security testing | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,025.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Lead cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,300.00 | £1,600.00 |
| Principal cyber security secure systems architecture and design | £1,500.00 | £1,800.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- British Assessment Bureau part of the Amtivo Group
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Thursday 27 January 2011
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
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No exemptions. Whole organisation is covered.
Last assessed 23rd December 2025
The management system certificate number is 223468 - ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- British Assessment Bureau part of the Amtivo Group
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Tuesday 2 November 2010
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
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No exemptions. Whole of the organisation is covered.
Last assessment was conducted 3rd October 2025
The management system certificate number is 223469 - Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- C04af9e3-6b5a-4633-aebd-1f4a6b84b27d
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
- 404accca-c739-4283-ac6e-967998f6e7ae
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
- Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
- Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
- Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
- Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
- Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Volunteering opportunities for staff
- Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
- Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
- How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
- Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
- Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
- Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
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Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises
- Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
- Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
- Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
- Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
- Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
- Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment
- Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
- Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
- Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
- Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
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Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain
Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.
- Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
- Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
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Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
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Service documents
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