Purple Team Assessment Services

What a purple team engagement actually is

Red teams attack; blue teams defend; a purple team puts them in the same room. Rather than a silent adversary simulation your defenders only learn about afterwards, a purple team runs known attack techniques collaboratively, watching in real time which detections fire, which are silent, and which fire but never reach an analyst. The output is not a pass or fail, it is a prioritised list of the detections worth building next.

We map every technique to MITRE ATT&CK, execute it against your live environment under controlled conditions, and sit with your SOC as it happens. Where a technique goes undetected, we tune the rule with your team on the spot and re-run it, so you leave with working detections, not just a report saying you lacked them.

When purple teaming beats a covert red team

A covert red team answers “could an attacker get in without us noticing?” A purple team answers “what exactly do we need to build so that next time we do notice?” Most organisations need the second answer more urgently. If your last red team or incident showed detection gaps, purple teaming is the fastest way to close them, because remediation happens live rather than after a six-week report cycle.

It is also the natural follow-on to any regulated engagement: TIBER-EU and CBEST both build a purple-team replay into closure, and we deliver that replay as a structured session with a detection-engineering backlog your team can action immediately.

What you leave with

A technique-by-technique results matrix mapped to ATT&CK (detected / partial / missed), tuned and validated detection rules for the gaps we closed together, a prioritised detection-engineering backlog for the rest, and a metrics baseline, mean time to detect and respond per technique class, you can re-measure at the next engagement to prove your SOC is improving.