About Red Goat Cyber Security
We care about cyber resilience and defence
Since 2017, we have helped organisations build the confidence, capability and resilience needed to respond effectively to cyber incidents. Through cyber exercises, simulations, training and consultancy, we help organisations prepare for the threats they face today and the emerging challenges they may face tomorrow.
Cyber threats continue to evolve, and organisations are increasingly managing risks associated with cloud services, third parties, digital transformation and artificial intelligence. Effective cyber resilience starts with people, plans, processes and the ability to make good decisions under pressure.
Welcome to Red Goat Cyber Security
We are a specialist cyber resilience consultancy focused on helping organisations prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber incidents. Founded in Bristol, UK, and serving clients globally, Red Goat Cyber Security delivers cyber exercises, simulations, crisis management development and consultancy designed to build practical, measurable resilience.
Our team works closely with clients to develop organisation-specific exercises and simulations that reflect real-world threats, operational realities and emerging risks, including those associated with artificial intelligence and digital transformation.
Named one of the UK’s leading cyber security training providers in 2019, Red Goat takes pride in helping organisations build confidence, strengthen capability and improve resilience.
A Practical Approach to Cyber Resilience
Technology alone does not create resilience. Effective cyber response depends on people, plans, decision-making and coordination.
We help organisations develop these capabilities through cyber exercises, simulations, crisis management training, plan development and resilience consultancy. Our work helps leadership teams, crisis management teams and operational teams understand their roles, validate their response arrangements and identify opportunities for improvement.
As technology evolves, organisations must also be prepared to manage emerging risks associated with artificial intelligence, automated systems and increasingly complex digital environments. Our approach combines established cyber resilience practices with an understanding of the changing threat landscape to help organisations prepare for both current and future challenges.
Why ‘Red Goat’?
A study, published by the Royal Society, showed that goats can recognise their fellow herd members by both sight and, more impressively, by the sound of their voice.
Up until the late 60s it was thought that only humans displayed cross-modal recognition. Cross-modal recognition is the ability to recall how others look, sound and smell. We now know that several “intelligent” animals can do this – including goats.
The experiment:
The researchers recorded the voices of goats that lived together and random unrelated goats. They placed the “known” goat and the random goat in far left and far right corners of the enclosure. They then took a goat participant and played the recording of the known goat and then the random goat. They noted the test goat’s response and how long it took for the goat to make a decision. They discovered that almost as soon as the recording was played the goat would look at whichever goat that recording was attributed to. This not only showed that goats can recognise “intruders” into their herds or goats that aren’t their friends (cross-modal recognition) but also that they are capable of using “inferential reasoning”- in other words they can use a process of elimination to get to the correct answer. Perhaps when the goats listened to a recording that they knew wasn’t one of their friends they inferred that it must therefore be the other random goat.
At Red Goat Cyber Security we focus on training and testing your staff to quickly spot potential intruders into your company. We train them to spot malicious calls (Vishing), emails (Phishing), text messages (Smishing) and physical intruders (impersonation). The study came out not long before we founded the company and we realised that goats were able to spot intruders into their herds and we want your staff to be confident and capable enough to do the same!