Purple Team
Assessment

Your red team finds gaps. Your blue team closes them. Purple teaming brings both sides together in real time, measuring detection coverage, response effectiveness, and control validation so you know exactly where your defences stand.

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Red + Blue Collaboration Detection Validation MITRE ATT&CK Mapped Free Re-Test

Purple Team Scorecard

Initial Access DetectionPartial

Lateral Movement AlertingGap

Credential Theft ResponseDelayed

Exfiltration BlockingActive

Command and ControlDetected

Detected

Partial

Gap

Detect

Respond

Validate

ATT&CK

Testing Areas

What We Test in Your Purple Team Engagement

Comprehensive purple team testing spanning attack and detection, response and validation, and reporting and improvement.

ATT&CK Technique Execution

Execute MITRE ATT&CK techniques across your environment while your blue team monitors for detection, mapping coverage against the full ATT&CK framework for your industry.

Detection Gap Analysis

Measure which attack techniques generate alerts, which are silently missed, and where your SIEM, EDR, and network monitoring configurations have detection blind spots.

Alert Quality Assessment

Evaluate alert fidelity, severity accuracy, and enrichment quality for each detection to ensure your SOC receives actionable alerts, not noise.

Telemetry Validation

Assess whether your log sources, event collection, and telemetry pipelines deliver the data needed for detection of each ATT&CK technique in your environment.

Atomic Testing

Run individual atomic tests for specific ATT&CK techniques to validate single controls, detection rules, and response playbooks in isolation before combining into full scenarios.

Custom Scenario Development

Design attack scenarios tailored to your threat model, industry risk profile, and technology stack that simulate the adversaries most likely to target your organisation.

Response Playbook Validation

Test your incident response playbooks against live attack scenarios, measuring time to detect, time to respond, and whether containment actions actually stop the attack.

SOC Performance Metrics

Measure mean time to detect, mean time to respond, escalation accuracy, and investigation thoroughness under realistic attack pressure.

Containment Effectiveness Testing

Validate whether your containment actions including host isolation, account disabling, and network segmentation actually stop the attack path in progress.

Deception Technology Validation

Test whether your honeypots, canary tokens, and decoy assets trigger alerts when adversaries interact with them during realistic attack sequences.

Threat Hunting Validation

Challenge your threat hunting team with hidden attack artefacts and persistence mechanisms to validate their ability to find adversaries already in your environment.

Communication and Escalation Testing

Evaluate incident communication workflows, escalation paths, and decision-making processes under realistic attack scenarios with time pressure and uncertainty.

ATT&CK Heat Map

Generate a visual heat map showing detection coverage across all MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, highlighting gaps and validated strengths in your security programme.

Detection Rule Development

Create new SIEM detection rules, EDR queries, and network monitoring signatures based on gaps discovered during the engagement to close detection blind spots.

Remediation Prioritisation

Rank findings by detection impact, exploitability, and business risk so your team focuses on closing the gaps that matter most first.

Purple Team Report

Deliver a comprehensive report with executive summary, per-technique detection scores, response timeline analysis, and specific remediation actions for each gap.

Continuous Validation Programme

Design an ongoing purple team cadence with regular atomic tests, quarterly scenario exercises, and annual full-scope engagements for continuous security improvement.

Benchmarks and Trends

Track detection coverage and response metrics over time, benchmarking against industry peers and measuring improvement across successive purple team engagements.

Methodology

How We Run a Purple Team Engagement

A structured six-phase programme from threat modelling through to validation re-test.

Phase 01

Threat Modelling and Planning

Define the threat model, select relevant ATT&CK techniques, and design attack scenarios aligned to your industry, technology stack, and risk profile.

Phase 02

Baseline Assessment

Run atomic tests across selected techniques to establish detection coverage baseline, alert quality, and response time measurements before the full engagement.

Phase 03

Attack Execution

Red team executes attack scenarios while blue team monitors and responds in real time, with observers recording detection events, alert timing, and response actions.

Phase 04

Detection and Response Analysis

Analyse which techniques were detected, missed, or partially detected, and measure response effectiveness, containment success, and communication quality.

Phase 05

Gap Remediation

Develop new detection rules, update SIEM configurations, refine response playbooks, and close gaps discovered during the engagement with specific, actionable guidance.

Phase 06

Validation Re-Test

Re-execute techniques that were initially missed to validate that new detections and response improvements work correctly, confirming measurable security posture improvement.

Who It's For

Who Needs Purple Team Assessment

Mature Security Operations

Organisations with an established SOC, SIEM, and incident response capability that want to validate and continuously improve their detection and response effectiveness.

Compliance-Driven Enterprises

Financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure organisations that need evidence of detection and response capability for regulatory requirements and board reporting.

Post-Incident Improvement

Organisations that have experienced a breach or incident and need to validate that their security improvements actually prevent and detect similar attacks in the future.

FAQ

Questions We Get Asked Often

Purple teaming is a collaborative security exercise where red team attackers and blue team defenders work together in real time. The red team executes attack techniques while the blue team detects and responds, with both sides sharing insights to measure and improve detection coverage, response effectiveness, and overall security posture.

Red teaming focuses on breaching your environment to find vulnerabilities, with the blue team unaware until they detect the attack. Purple teaming is collaborative: both sides work together, sharing information in real time to measure detection coverage and response quality against specific attack techniques, rather than just testing whether an attack succeeds.

We map all attack scenarios and detection coverage to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing a heat map of detection coverage across tactics and techniques. We also align to NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, and industry-specific frameworks for compliance mapping and reporting.

A typical purple team engagement runs two to four weeks, including planning, baseline testing, full scenario execution, analysis, and validation. Continuous validation programmes run quarterly atomic tests with annual full-scope engagements for ongoing improvement measurement.

While a mature SOC maximises the value of purple teaming, organisations at any security maturity level can benefit. For less mature teams, we focus on foundational detection capabilities, basic alerting, and response playbook development before measuring advanced detection coverage.

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