Shades of Purple: Getting Started and Making Purple Teaming Possible
summary
Purple teaming means pairing red and blue to test and fix real gaps: start with team gap analysis and tabletops, run Backdoors and Breaches or a free CTF, then escalate to MITRE adversary emulation and CTI-driven exercises. Examples: a tabletop finds a password policy that allows brute force within 120 days, MFA missing and an any/any rule, an emulation yields a remote shell from a newly published zero day. Pick one exercise, track findings (e.g., 3 events → 6 issues → 4 remediations), schedule retests and bake fixes into SDLC.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Purple teaming introduction
- 1:04Purple teaming defined
- 3:54Red vs blue team stereotypes
- 4:57Purple teaming evolution
- 6:19Org-specific purple teaming
- 7:01Big Ws for purple teaming
- 9:27Building a purple team
- 11:13Low-cost purple strategies
- 14:47Security assessments for purple
- 16:13Pen testing and vuln management
- 18:22Defense-informed pen testing
- 20:09Threat-informed engineering
- 21:59Behavior analytics & threat intel
- 23:47Adversary emulation & continuous
- 25:55Measuring purple teaming maturity
- 27:18Mature purple teaming traits
- 29:04Real-world purple scenarios
- 33:58Tips for purple teaming
- 35:42Purple teaming vs security theater
- 36:46Breaking rigid thinking
- 37:50Next steps for purple teaming
- 39:13Q&A on KPIs & golden images
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