Purple Teaming

What is Purple Teaming?

Purple teaming is a collaborative cybersecurity exercise where the red team (attackers) and blue team (defenders) work together to improve detection, alerting, and incident response. Compared to pure red teaming, it’s more time- and cost-efficient and directly strengthens your Security Operations Center (SOC).

Your blue team is your first line of defense. But finding a sparring partner experienced in the latest adversarial tools and tactics can be difficult. Instead of running blind simulations, we work side-by-side with your defenders to uncover blind spots, validate response workflows, and build solid detection capabilities.

We help your defenders gain practical experience and improve their ability to protect your company's critical assets.

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Focus on What Matters

Effective defense depends on well-coordinated teams. Depending on your requirements and needs, different approaches can be used to efficiently assess and improve your security posture. We may trigger specific detection rules or run a full-scale simulation.

Gap Analysis

Attackers use diverse and evolving techniques. To help defenders prioritize, we use structured frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. The framework is a globally recognized knowledge base that categorizes known attack methods.

Leveraging this framework and our real-world experience from penetration testing, red teaming, and incident response, we analyze your organization’s detection capabilities for gaps and blind spots that attackers could exploit.

Use Case Verification

Building reliable detection logic is not an easy task, especially in today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape. What works on paper might suffer from hidden flaws in a real-world environment. This could cause real threats to go undetected.

In this assessment, we will systematically verify that your detection rules:

  • work as intended,
  • adapted to your infrastructure,
  • cannot easily be bypassed.  

This helps strengthen your security posture and increases your confidence in catching threats early.

Attack Simulation

A successful response to a cyber-attack depends on technical and organizational factors. While detecting malicious activity is a critical first step, what follows is just as important. Alerts must be handled promptly, incidents escalated appropriately, and most crucially, the right people must receive the right information in the right format.

We test your defensive readiness end-to-end with a realistic but controlled mock attack. Together with your IT specialists, we define tailored scenarios based on your environment and execute them. We then analyze the entire response process to uncover strengths and improvement areas.

Continuous Improvement

IT environments evolve rapidly. Attackers constantly devise new methods to compromise their targets. At the same time, your infrastructure evolves with new tools, services, and workflows.

To stay ahead, your defenses must continuously adapt. By regularly reassessing critical aspects of your security posture, you can ensure your team is prepared when it matters most.

Direct Collaboration

Purple teaming needs dedicated tools. For our engagements, we deploy a customized version of PurpleOps. This web-based application allows for easy and direct collaboration between all parties involved. Based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, all performed activities can be classified and organized, granting direct insights into your company's security posture.

By facilitating the information exchange between your blue team and our specialists, PurpleOps enables an efficient and well-defined workflow. Expectations and outcomes of the performed tests can be managed in a structured approach. This allows for direct comparison and easy identification of deviations and unexpected behaviors.

After the assessment, you'll receive a full export of all gathered data along with our report. Our customized version of PurpleOps is available on GitHub, allowing you to continue working on your custom data set internally.

 

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