Do you need independent experts’ assessment of the general security aspects of your application or system? How about a comparable benchmark for the level of your application’s overall security practices?
Recon and red teaming can be done separately, but they also work hand in hand. It may be a good idea for a company to do a thorough recon to understand the adversaries view on the organization – and this not only in the technical sense.
A common tool used to assess the security of a web application is penetration testing. Known also as pentest. Pentest is a “legal” simulated attack that seeks to use an application in a way that could be harmful to either the system, the data in the system, or the people who use the system.