Offense and defense work together

Collaborative attack-defense simulation

Creating a solid cyber defense is much more effective when offense and defense work together. Our collaborative purple teaming sessions challenge your current security measures by performing relevant attacker techniques and jointly analyzing your threat detection and response. This sparks knowledge transfer and further development of sophisticated solutions for better detection and response capabilities.

We infuse your defensive team with the attacker mindset.

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Together, we strengthen your threat detection and respond capability

Why defensive security teams value purple teaming exercises

Stimulate offense and defense collaboration

Grasp advanced attacker behavior

Clear and focused improvement

A tailored, collaborative, and improvement-driven experience

Purple teaming shows detailed attacker behavior (TTPs) relevant for specific threats your organization faces. In contrast to red teaming, your defensive team is involved from the start of the exerice. Your team and FalconForce together assess how your detections and response processes hold during the performed TTPs.

This intense collaboration enhances your team’s knowledge and allows starting direct improvement to threat detection and response.

For defensive teams that want a collaborative learning experience

Purple teaming FalconForce style

We help your defensive team to better understand attacker behavior while together strengthening your defenses

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Valuable learning experience

  • Attack-defense simulation: purple teaming exercises are attack-defense simulations. They combine offensive and defensive professionals during collaborative sessions to improve cyber defense capabilities.
  • Focused exercise: each exercise focuses on a specific threat or topic, carefully selected based on your input and/or FalconForce’s red and blue experience in similar organizations.
  • Learning experience: FalconForce’s purple teaming exercises focus on collaboration, learning and pro-actively enhancing your threat detection & response. 

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Spot where to improve

  • Realistic attack activities: we perform selected Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) that real-life adversaries use during a cyber-attack. We help you managing the risk of the exercise to an acceptable level, as attacks will be performed in your production environment.
  • Understand attacker behavior: by explaining the attack techniques used, we create a better understanding for your team on how attackers work (and how they can be detected and responded to).
  • Assess detection in real-time: your defensive team can use their tools to gauge whether (parts of) the attack can be detected. More importantly, our blue team experts will support you in identifying detection improvement opportunities.

Pricing

Single or regular exercise(s)

  • Single exercise: perform a purple teaming exercise focused on a specific topic. For example, resulting from a red teaming exercise or based on audit outcomes.
  • Regular exercises: plan and perform multiple exercises per year. For example, based on topics from your cyber security roadmap or as regular collaborative activities between your security and infrastructure teams.

How to start a purple teaming exercise?

FalconForce red teaming exercise

We help you increase knowledge and improve your threat detection and response

Purple teaming provides a compact, valuable learning experience

Battle-harden your defenses

We simulate specific TTPs of threat actors relevant to your organization in your environment. This gives a solid insight in how effective your detections for these TTPs are and if your response processes work as intended.

Learn and improve

A purple teaming exercise exposes gaps in your detection and response and shows the potential impact of those gaps. This learning experience will aid you in prioritizing detection improvement activities on your cyber roadmap.

Accelerate capability development

We bring a unique combination of red and blue teaming specialists to each exercise. Engaging in-depth with your defensive team in both the attack’s details and – more importantly – working closely with you to better detect or respond to such attacks in the future.

Purple teaming: your next step to enhance your defensive team's knowledge

FalconForce purple teaming helps you increase your defensive team’s knowledge into threat actor behavior “in the field”. In an intense collaboration with FalconForce you assess whether your detection and response operates as intended to thwarts relevant TTPs. We help you learn and improve on the spot and provide valuable insights for further improvement.

We are happy to meet you and discuss how we can help. Please reach out to Ivo to start a conversation!

Email: [email protected] 

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between red teaming and purple teaming?
Purple teaming is an open, intense and compact collaboration between red teaming and blue teamers from the very start of the project. Red teaming typically have a longer lead time than purple teaming exercises. Red teaming starts out as “red versus blue”, where the red team tries to stay undetected. In our red teaming approach, towards the end of the exercise transforms into red and blue collaboration. We believe that both purple and red teaming should be a valuable learning experience for our clients’ defensive teams.
When should I go for purple teaming instead of red teaming?
Purple teaming exercises are typically more compact and therefore easier to schedule and can be scoped to more specific learning needs. Moreover, the collaboration with and knowledge exchange between the red and blue team starts from day one. Our clients typically use purple teaming to focus attention on topics left untouched in red teaming exercises and provide regular hands-on training to their defensive teams.

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