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Purple Team Testing

Strengthen your organization’s ability to detect, respond to, and understand real-world threats through purple team testing. Unlike red team assessments that focus on stealth, purple team exercises emphasize transparency, active communication, and hands-on learning between offensive and defensive teams.
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Are Your Defenses Really Ready?

Purple team testing addresses a critical gap in cybersecurity operations: the disconnect between offensive threat simulation and defensive readiness. Purple team testing fosters real-time collaboration between the attacking red team and the defending blue team, enabling you to observe, understand, and respond to simulated threats in a transparent, guided environment.

Icons_DocumentT Operational Readiness Gain immediate insight into attack tactics and learn how to detect and respond effectively.  
Icon_FlowG Detection and Response Optimization Identify gaps in logging, alerting, and escalation workflows, with tailored recommendations for improvement.  
Icons_LightBulbY Collaborative Learning Environment

Foster knowledge transfer and operational maturity without the pressure of performance grading.

  

Purple Team Testing Outcomes

Logging and Alerting
Guidance on which logs, alerts, and correlations to implement for stronger threat visibility.
Remediation
Tactical steps to mitigate vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.
Key Risk Indicators
Suggested metrics and detections to implement in your SIEM or alerting tools to improve visibility.
Security Maturity
Actionable recommendations and insights into your current threat detection and response posture.

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Our Approach to Purple Team Testing

Our purple team tests prioritize transparency, communication, and knowledge transfer. SBS will act as the red team and provide a dedicated blue team liaison who works alongside your blue team. Our methodology is rooted in guidance provided by the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).

Scope

Design tailored attack scenarios that simulate realistic threats.
Validate existing security controls and improve your ability to identify and respond to active threats.
Identify gaps in visibility, monitoring, logging, alerting, and response workflows.
Improve detection rules, security event management, response playbooks, and escalation steps.

Follow Up

Conduct a collaborative debriefing with a full timeline of attack activities, detection outcomes, and remediation guidance.
Deliver a comprehensive report highlighting what happened, what should have happened, what was detected, and how to close the gaps.
Hold post-engagement meetings to review findings, answer questions, and assist with next steps.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is purple team testing different from penetration testing? A penetration test is useful for initial risk assessments or meeting compliance goals. Purple team assessments proactively improve your team's ability to detect, respond, and remediate threats. Read our blog that explores purple team versus pen testing to learn which assessment is right for your organization.
What is the difference between a purple team test and a red team test? Red team tests are typically performed without knowledge of your blue team. Purple team tests are collaborative, with blue and red teams working together to drive cyber maturity.
What types of attacks does your purple team simulate?

Attacks simulated may include assumed breach testing, data exfiltration, account escalation, and lateral movement exploitation.
What is the goal of purple teaming?

The objective is not merely to test whether an attack can succeed, but to enhance the blue team’s detection and response capabilities in a live-fire, guided learning environment.
Who should consider purple team testing? Purple teaming is ideal for medium to large organizations looking beyond compliance and wanting to advance their security maturity.
How do we prepare for a purple team test? Your blue team should monitor, detect, and respond to attack activities in real-time and collaborate directly with their SBS liaison to improve detection capabilities and operational readiness.
How long does a purple team exercise take? Purple team tests are performed over the course of two weeks.
Will the test disrupt my business operations? Our purple team tests aim to minimize disruptions, but coordination with leadership ensures boundaries are defined to maintain business continuity.

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