RedLab Security exists to protect the organizations that power modern society. We combine deep adversarial expertise with strategic intelligence to deliver security outcomes that real businesses can depend on — not just compliance checkboxes.
RedLab Security is a full-spectrum cybersecurity firm built by practitioners who spent careers inside government intelligence agencies, elite military cyber units, and the security organizations of Fortune 500 enterprises. We understand adversaries because many of us have operated as them in authorized environments.
Our mission is direct: give our clients the same intelligence, techniques, and strategic perspective that sophisticated threat actors use — so that defenses are built around reality, not theory. We do not sell fear. We deliver verifiable security improvement measured against the most relevant threats to your specific organization.
From board-level risk advisory to hands-on red team operations, our 200+ security professionals across Austin, London, and Singapore bring the full depth of offensive and defensive capability to every engagement.
RedLab Security was founded in 2018 by Marcus Chen and Dr. Sarah Mitchell, who met while serving as civilian advisors to the Department of Defense's Cyber Command. Having spent years developing offensive cyber capabilities and hardening critical national infrastructure, they recognized a fundamental gap in the commercial security market: most firms were selling compliance, not security.
The company began as a boutique red team consultancy with a seven-person team in Austin. Word spread quickly among CISOs who were tired of penetration test reports filled with CVE lists and no meaningful remediation guidance. RedLab offered something different — attack simulations that mirrored the actual TTPs of threat actors targeting their specific industry, with intelligence-backed context and clear remediation roadmaps.
By 2020, growing demand from financial services and healthcare clients led to the expansion of a dedicated Threat Intelligence division. In 2022, RedLab opened its London office to serve EMEA clients, followed by the Singapore office in 2023 to anchor APAC operations. Today, the firm operates as a full-spectrum cybersecurity provider while remaining deeply rooted in its adversarial, practitioner-first culture.
Marcus Chen and Dr. Sarah Mitchell launch RedLab as a specialized red team consultancy, bringing intelligence-community methodology to the private sector.
Rapid growth across financial services and critical infrastructure verticals. James Okafor joins as CISO-in-Residence, building out the managed security practice.
Dr. Elena Volkov leads the launch of RedLab's proprietary threat intelligence platform, integrating OSINT, dark web monitoring, and adversary tracking.
EMEA expansion anchored by CREST accreditation and a 40-person team serving government and financial sector clients across the UK and Europe.
Singapore office launched to serve APAC markets. Today RedLab operates as a full-spectrum cybersecurity firm with 200+ professionals across 40+ countries.
Every engagement we conduct is grounded in the same core operating principles that have driven our outcomes since 2018.
We begin every engagement by profiling the threat actors most likely to target your organization — their motivations, known TTPs, preferred initial access vectors, and historical targeting of your sector. Security recommendations are derived from this threat model, not generic best practices.
Our offensive teams think and operate like real attackers — not checklist auditors. Red team operations are scoped to emulate specific threat actor behaviors, including nation-state TTPs, criminal ransomware groups, and insider threats, so that your defenses are validated against realistic scenarios.
Our engagements are measured against tangible outcomes: reduction in attack surface, improved mean time to detect, successful remediation of critical findings, and demonstrable security posture improvement. We define success criteria before work begins and hold ourselves accountable to them.
We embed with your teams rather than parachuting in and out. Our security professionals work alongside your engineers, SOC analysts, and risk teams — transferring knowledge, building internal capability, and ensuring that every investment in RedLab creates lasting security improvement that persists after the engagement ends.
Our leadership brings decades of combined experience across government intelligence, military cyber operations, and enterprise security.
Marcus spent 14 years as a senior cyber advisor to the Department of Defense, where he led offensive cyber strategy development for USCYBERCOM and advised multiple combatant commands on adversary tradecraft. He holds a Master's in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon and is a frequent speaker at RSA Conference and DEF CON. Under his leadership, RedLab has grown from seven people to over 200 professionals across three continents.
Dr. Mitchell spent 11 years as a research scientist at the National Security Agency, where her work on vulnerability research and cryptographic systems earned multiple commendations. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and has published widely in academic and industry journals on adversarial machine learning, zero-day exploitation methodology, and protocol security. She leads RedLab's technical research division and platform engineering.
James brings over 20 years of enterprise security leadership, including CISO roles at two global financial institutions with combined assets exceeding $800 billion. He has led security organizations through major regulatory examinations, incident response to nation-state intrusions, and the security transformation of multi-cloud environments at scale. At RedLab, James oversees client advisory, the CISO-as-a-Service practice, and our risk and compliance portfolio.
Dr. Volkov holds a PhD in Applied Cryptography from the University of Cambridge and previously led the cryptographic research team at a major European defence contractor. Her work encompasses post-quantum cryptography migration, secure protocol design, and threat intelligence automation. At RedLab, she oversees the Threat Intelligence platform, vulnerability research, and the company's academic partnerships with leading universities in the US and UK.
These principles govern how we work with clients, how we operate our teams, and how we make decisions when the path is unclear.
We report what we find, not what clients want to hear. Our assessments reflect the true state of your security posture — including uncomfortable findings — because accurate information is the foundation of good decisions. We never inflate or minimize risk to suit commercial interests.
Security mediocrity costs lives, livelihoods, and institutions. We hold ourselves to the highest standard of technical quality, analytical rigor, and professional conduct. Every deliverable — from a penetration test report to a board briefing — is reviewed to ensure it meets the standard we'd demand of ourselves.
The best security outcomes happen when our expertise and your institutional knowledge work together. We don't operate as an external vendor — we operate as an extension of your team. Knowledge transfer and internal capability building are built into every engagement, not offered as optional add-ons.
Threat actors continuously evolve their techniques. Our research team monitors emerging TTPs, studies novel attack surfaces, and develops new detection and testing methodologies. We invest a meaningful share of our revenue in R&D to ensure our capabilities remain at the frontier of the adversarial landscape.
We commit to outcomes, not just deliverables. If a remediation recommendation doesn't resolve the underlying vulnerability, we work with you until it does. We track the results of our engagements over time and use that data to continuously improve our methodology and the guidance we provide.
Our clients trust us with some of their most sensitive information — architectural details, vulnerability data, incident timelines. We treat that trust with absolute seriousness. Our data handling practices, staff vetting processes, and operational security controls are designed to protect client information with the same rigor we apply to protecting theirs.
Our accreditations and certifications are not marketing designations — they represent independent verification of our technical capabilities and operational standards.
Talk to a RedLab security specialist about your specific threat landscape, compliance requirements, and security program objectives. No sales pitch — just a straightforward assessment of how we can help.