Security Testing and Assurance
Purple Teaming
Uplift your internal security team’s readiness to respond to a real-world cyber threats through real-world attack simulation.
Fortify your defences and uplift the skills and capabilities of your internal security team with Purple Teaming exercises
Expose vulnerabilities
Uncover vulnerabilities and hidden weaknesses through realistic attack simulation.
Be prepared
Test your security monitoring, playbooks and incident response plan against real-world threats.
Uplift skills
Purple Teaming provides a safe space for your team to practice detection and response, sharpening your security team skills.
Unified approach to security
Improve communication and collaboration amongst your own teams and foster a unified approach to security.
What is Purple Teaming?
Purple Teaming is a collaborative security exercise between offensive (Red) and defensive (Blue) teams. Leveraging real-world threat intelligence to design a realistic attack scenario, our team simulates a red team attack scenario, while your organisation’s blue team defends.
We work closely with our CyberCX Intelligence unit. Their insights and contribution include threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedure (TTPs), threat trends for your geography, sector and organisation, and are included as part of every purple team engagement. Our techniques and custom tools are informed by cyber adversaries, meaning we emulate real-world TTPS that matter most to your organisation.
Throughout, the Red and Blue teams work together to identify security weaknesses, refine your playbooks, security use cases and incident response plans. The objective is to uplift your internal security team’s readiness to respond to a real-world cyber threats.
As the exercise commences, the Blue team will gain experience analysing logs, evaluating attacks and developing appropriate responses, enabling your internal security team to gain a critical understanding of gaps in your security posture and helps identify areas for capability enhancement. This collaborative approach, informed by real-world threats, leads to a more secure organisation building up your own security team and fortifying your defences.
Purple Teaming methodology
Purple team scenarios are crafted based on current threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), previous incidents or red team findings. Our team prepares and executes the attack simulation in a controlled environment with full visibility of your Blue team, allowing for real-time monitoring and response. As the attack unfolds, your Blue team actively works to detect, prevent, and contain the simulated threats, testing the effectiveness of your existing security measures.
Following the exercise, both teams collaborate to review, documenting the results with a focus on prevention, detection, and containment capabilities. These findings provide valuable insights into your organisation’s security strengths and weaknesses. We then identify improvements in current detections and may replay scenarios to reinforce learning and validate enhancements. This methodology fosters a collaborative environment that enhances your teams’ capabilities, detection, response, and security controls, hardening your organisation’s security posture through practical experience and immediate feedback.
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Enhance your organisation’s security posture with Purple Teaming exercises
Trusted cyber security partner to leading Australian organisations.
Why CyberCX for Purple Teaming?
When it comes to strengthening your organisation’s security, our elite Adversary Simulation Group offer unmatched value and effectiveness. Our highly skilled team brings over 50 years of combined red teaming experience to every engagement, having successfully conducted a significant amount of red team exercises annually across diverse sectors which include retail, finance, and critical infrastructure.
Notably, we have worked with half of the ASX Top 20 organisations in the past 24 months, demonstrating our ability to handle complex, high-stakes environments.
Our stellar reputation for executing high-quality CORIE (Cyber Operational Resilience Intelligence-led Exercises) engagements in collaboration with the CFR CORIE team, led by the Reserve Bank of Australia, showcases our capability to meet the most stringent regulatory requirements.
Our team dedicates significant time to research, capability development, and skills enhancement, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats. By leveraging both custom in-house tools and industry-leading capabilities, we provide a comprehensive and realistic assessment of your security posture.
Additionally, our collaborative approach with other industry-leading teams within CyberCX, including Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), Managed Security Services (MSS), and Cyber Threat Intelligence, ensures that our exercises are thorough and aligned with real-world threats.
Whether you need a red team exercise to test your defences or a purple team engagement to foster collaboration between your offensive and defensive teams, we customise our approach to meet your specific needs and objectives.
By choosing our red and purple team exercises, you’re not just getting a security assessment, you’re gaining a strategic partner committed to elevating your organisation’s cyber resilience.
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Enhance your organisation’s security posture with Purple Teaming exercises
Our Adversary Simulation Group is committed to advancing the field of cyber security through dedicated research and development efforts.
As part of our mission to give back to our customers and the wider community, we actively create and share free tooling to enhance security practices. A prime example of this commitment is our industry-leading PurpleOps tool, an open-source platform designed to streamline and automate purple team exercises, enabling organisations to efficiently test their detection and response capabilities against simulated cyber threats.
