Threat-led penetration testing and TIBER-EU

Threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) services for TIBER-EU and DORA-compliant cyber resilience.

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Threat‑led penetration testing combining threat intelligence, red and purple teaming to meet TIBER‑EU and DORA requirements. Failure to meet DORA TLPT exposes financial entities to sanctions and higher cyber risk.

Key strengths of Thales TLPT for TIBER-EU and DORA

Thales delivers intelligence-driven TLPT combining CTI, red and purple teaming to test every layer of cyber defence.

Intelligence-driven TLPT

Our TLPT goes beyond traditional penetration testing by simulating intelligence-led attacks against live production environments using real adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) to validate the resilience of your critical business functions.
DORA and TIBER-EU compliance

We deliver TLPT fully aligned with TIBER EU and DORA requirements, supporting regulatory expectations, audit readiness and supervisory oversight for critical financial entities.
Red and purple teaming

Red and blue teams work together through purple teaming to improve detection, response, containment and remediation while providing full traceability, measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
Cyber threat intelligence

Our in-house Cyber Threat Intelligence identifies relevant threat actors and attack scenarios to ensure every TLPT reflects the latest adversary behaviours targeting your organisation.

What is threat-led penetration testing?

Under the EU’s DORA regulation, Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT) became mandatory in 2025 for critical financial entities. Unlike conventional penetration testing, TLPT is an advanced, intelligence-driven simulation of realistic cyberattacks on live production systems supporting critical functions. By using real-world adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), it assesses critical functions, validates detection and response capabilities, identifies vulnerabilities, and strengthens operational cyber resilience before a real attack occurs.

TLPT is no longer a technical exercise but a strategic requirement for business continuity and regulatory compliance. Combining TIBER-EU methodology with in-house cyber threat intelligence, Thales delivers realistic attack simulations that uncover exploitable weaknesses, measure cyber resilience and help organisations continuously improve their ability to detect, respond and recover from advanced threats.

TLPT, TIBER-EU and DORA - key features of Thales offering

Under DORA, TLPT is required for in-scope financial entities. The Regulatory Technical Standards explicitly require a purple teaming component, elevating TLPT above traditional red team-only exercises. Thales designs realistic attack scenarios, malware, targeted phishing, stealth intrusions, based on real-world threat intelligence to test your resilience. Powered by our in-house Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), our TLPT simulations use real-world TTPs to uncover vulnerabilities and validate your cyber resilience before a real attack occurs.

Thales red team experts simulate advanced persistent threats using the same tools and techniques as real adversaries, while the blue team monitors, detects and responds in real time using CTI feeds and SOC dashboards. The purple teaming phase orchestrates reconnaissance, intrusion, persistence, detection, response, containment and remediation with full traceability.