Practical Purple Teaming: The Art of Collaborative Defense

This practical introduction to collaborative security testing, or “purple teaming,” is a hands-on, lab-based guide to key methodologies for cybersecurity practitioners in any field.

Many organizations have chosen to forgo traditional security tests in favor of collaborative assessments – or “purple team” tests, for the way they combine offensive (“red team”) and defensive (“blue team”) elements – in which offensive and defensive teams work together to measure and improve the organization's resilience to attacks.

Practical Purple Teaming outlines common purple team methodologies, offensive and defensive frameworks, and real-world threat research to craft realistic test cases. Readers will use a dedicated lab environment to execute attacks common to the modern threat landscape, then consider ways of tuning defenses to detect and prevent the activity.