Purple teaming
Do you and your defenders understand your organization’s vulnerabilities and how adversaries could exploit them?
Purple Teaming is a collaborative cyber defense exercise for your organization. Instead of simulating attacks in isolation, offensive and defensive teams work together to uncover weaknesses, share insights, and strengthen your security posture.
What is purple teaming?
Compliance defines the controls. Purple Teaming validates their effectiveness in the face of real threats.
Think of Purple Teaming as a collaborative test of your cyber defenses. We simulate real attacks while working with your defenders to see how your systems respond. Each engagement is tailored to your needs and provides deep insight into your security posture.
Scope, scenario, phases and approach for each engagement are customisable, depending on the security maturity level of the organisation and the particular objectives.
In testing phase Purple Teaming is a last-resort extension of a security test, initiated by a White Team proposal and approved by authorities, to enhance learning and test value through focused attack scenarios, while ensuring alignment with assessment goals and oversight of test integrity, validation, and reporting.
Purple Teaming is strongly recommended during the closure phase of a security assessment to conduct tailored review exercises that evaluate defensive effectiveness, deepen understanding of attack-defense dynamics, and enrich overall insights.
What you get from purple teaming?
- Validated Findings
Detailed report on each exploited weakness, including its nature, location, and potential impact. - Collaborative Attack Simulations
Work together to plan and execute attack scenarios, ensuring realistic simulations - Proof of Exploitability
Demonstrations of how vulnerabilities were exploited, including reproduction steps and documentation. - Defense Evasion Testing
Insights into security controls that were bypassed or failed to detect activity. - Threat Intelligence Integration
Information gathered from Threat Intelligence team.
Why it matters?
- Real-World Threat Simulation
Test your readiness using the tools, techniques, and mindset of actual adversaries. - Unbiased Assessment
Independent testing ensures a clear and objective understanding of your current risk landscape. - Business Risk Context
Findings are framed in terms of operational and reputational impact—not just technical severity. - Regulatory Compliance
Supports your evidence base for GDPR, ISO 27001, NIS2, and other frameworks. - Security Awareness & Culture
Red teaming helps your teams recognize threats and reinforces a proactive security mindset across the organization.