Red Team + Blue Team

// PURPLE TEAMING

Purple Team
Engagement

A collaborative, feedback-driven exercise that puts your detection and response capabilities under real adversarial pressure — with your defenders in the room, not in the dark. We break things together so you can fix them permanently.

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FrameworkMITRE ATT&CK

Duration1–2 Weeks

ModelCollaborative

// OVERVIEW

What is Purple Teaming?

A Purple Team engagement is a structured, collaborative security exercise in which our offensive specialists execute real adversary techniques while your defensive team observes, detects, and responds in real time. Unlike a covert Red Team operation where defenders are kept in the dark, Purple Teaming is fully transparent — both sides work together to expose gaps, tune detections, and validate that fixes actually hold.

Each technique is drawn from the MITRE ATT&CK framework and mapped to threat actors relevant to your industry. We execute, your team attempts to detect, and we immediately analyse what fired, what was missed, and why. Detection logic is refined on the spot, and the technique is re-run to confirm the improvement. This iterative loop condenses months of post-breach learning into a focused one-to-two week engagement.

The result is a measurable uplift in your detection coverage, faster response times, a set of battle-tested SIEM/EDR rules, and a team that has practiced — not just planned — against real attack techniques. Every finding maps to an ATT&CK technique ID, giving you a heat map of your current defensive posture and a clear remediation roadmap.

74% of breaches involve the human element — detection gaps let attackers persist unnoticed Verizon DBIR 2024

194days average time to identify a breach — purple teaming cuts dwell time dramatically IBM Cost of a Data Breach

3× improvement in detection coverage reported after structured purple team exercises Industry Benchmarks

// HOW IT DIFFERS

Red Team vs Purple Team

Both disciplines use the same attack techniques — the difference is intent, transparency, and what your team gains at the end.

// Red Team Operations

Covert — defenders are unaware
Tests overall organisational resilience
Findings emerge at engagement close
Measures detection & response effectiveness
Best suited for mature security programmes
Ideal after detection capabilities are established

// Purple Team Engagement

Transparent — defenders work alongside attackers
Focuses on building & improving detections
Real-time feedback after every technique
Produces tuned SIEM rules & playbooks
Effective at any detection maturity level
Ideal for teams actively building defensive capability

// PROCESS

Our Methodology

Five structured phases — from threat profiling to verified detection improvements — with a continuous feedback loop at every stage.

Threat Scoping

Define the adversary profile — industry-relevant threat actors, priority ATT&CK tactics, and current detection baseline assessment.

TTP Execution

Red team runs each ATT&CK technique in a live environment — one at a time, with timestamps logged and blue team observing in real time.

Detection Analysis

Determine whether each technique generated an alert, logged correctly, or slipped through entirely. Classify: Detected, Logged-not-alerted, or Missed.

Rule Tuning & Gap Fix

Collaboratively write or tune SIEM detection rules, EDR policies, and response playbooks for every missed or misconfigured technique.

Retest & Validate

Re-execute previously missed techniques against the updated detection logic. Confirm each gap is genuinely closed before marking it remediated.

// ATT&CK COVERAGE

Tactics We Test Against

Every technique executed during the engagement maps to a MITRE ATT&CK tactic and technique ID, giving you a structured coverage heat map at engagement close. We select techniques based on your threat profile — prioritising the TTPs most commonly used by adversaries targeting your sector.

Reconnaissance

Initial Access

Execution

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Defense Evasion

Credential Access

Discovery

Lateral Movement

Collection

C2 Comms

Exfiltration

Impact

Resource Development

What Gets Validated

SIEM alert coverage

EDR behavioural rules

Incident response speed

Detection logic gaps

Analyst triage workflow

Log source completeness

Playbook effectiveness

Tool configuration fidelity

ATT&CK Mapped

// OUTCOMES

What Your Team Gains

Tangible improvements your security programme walks away with — not just a report, but a measurably better defensive posture.

ATT&CK Coverage Heatmap

A visual map of which techniques your SIEM and EDR currently detect, partially detect, or miss entirely — baseline vs post-engagement comparison included.

Tuned Detection Rules

Production-ready Sigma rules, KQL queries, or SIEM-native detections written and validated during the engagement — ready to deploy directly to your stack.

Incident Response Playbooks

Updated or newly created IR playbooks for the attack scenarios exercised — tested against real execution, not theoretical attack chains.

Detection Gap Report

Full written report mapping every technique to its detection outcome, root cause of failure, and specific remediation — with CVSS-equivalent prioritisation.

Analyst Skill Uplift

Your blue team analysts work alongside our red team throughout — gaining hands-on exposure to real adversary tradecraft and the artifacts it produces in logs and telemetry.

Retest Verification

Every detection gap that was remediated during the engagement is retested before close. You receive a verified-closed confirmation for each finding, not just a recommendation.

// DELIVERABLES

What You Receive

Executive Report

Board-ready summary of current detection maturity, risk exposure, and the measurable improvement achieved over the engagement period.

Technical Findings Report

Per-technique breakdown — ATT&CK ID, execution method, detection outcome, log evidence, root cause, and specific remediation for every tested TTP.

ATT&CK Heat Map

MITRE ATT&CK Navigator export showing pre- and post-engagement coverage — a clear visual of where you were, where you are, and what remains.

Detection Rules & Playbooks

Sigma-format or SIEM-native detection rules, plus updated IR playbooks for exercised scenarios — validated, not just recommended.

// TOOLING

How We Execute

MITRE ATT&CK Navigator Atomic Red Team Caldera Cobalt Strike Sigma Rules Velociraptor Elastic Security Splunk Microsoft Sentinel Custom C2 Tooling Bloodhound Impacket

// FRAMEWORKS

Standards We Follow

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

MITRE D3FEND

NIST SP 800-61 (Incident Response)

PTES (Penetration Testing Execution Standard)

TIBER-EU / CBEST threat intelligence

Sigma Detection Rules Standard

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