Engagement Flow

Overview

A pentest/red-team engagement is a phased pipeline with gates, not a pile of techniques run ad hoc. This skill sequences the 9-phase Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain and routes each phase to its commands, domain skills, and discipline checks. It is the offensive analog of brainstorming → writing-plans → executing-plans: scope the work, plan it, then execute phase by phase.

Don't jump to exploitation. Earlier phases earn the access that later phases need, and each gate keeps quality high before you advance.

The pipeline