Purple Team Assessment: Build Detection & Response Capabilities
Overview
Razorthorn’s purple team assessment combines offensive and defensive expertise through collaborative testing performed by CREST certified ethical hackers and security analysts. Our team brings together red team attack specialists and blue team defence experts who work in partnership to simultaneously test your cyber resilience whilst strengthening threat detection and incident response capabilities.
Unlike traditional red team assessments that focus on testing defences, or blue team exercises that improve detection in isolation, purple team assessments create a continuous feedback loop between attack and defence. Our purple team utilises real-world tactics, techniques and procedures in a controlled environment whilst providing immediate knowledge transfer, custom detection rules and enhanced monitoring capabilities to strengthen your security posture.
The collaborative approach ensures engagements deliver immediate security improvements and fully optimise the effectiveness of your technology, personnel and processes. Purple team assessments are ideal for organisations seeking to build sustainable defensive capabilities alongside security validation.
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Benefits of Purple Team Assessment
Identify Gaps Whilst Building Capabilities
Discover security weaknesses whilst simultaneously developing the defensive capabilities to address them. Purple team assessments combine vulnerability identification with immediate capability improvement, delivering both testing and enhancement in a single engagement.
Maximise Learning and Improvement
The collaborative approach accelerates security team development. Your analysts learn detection techniques in real time as our red team explains attack methods, significantly increasing knowledge transfer compared to traditional adversarial testing.
Enhance Detection and Response
Improve your security operations centre’s ability to detect and respond to sophisticated threats. Purple team assessments develop custom detection rules, optimise security tool configurations and strengthen incident response procedures based on realistic attack scenarios.
Build Sustainable Security Improvements
Create lasting defensive enhancements rather than just identifying problems. Purple team assessments develop detection capabilities, analyst skills and security processes that continue delivering value long after the engagement concludes.
Strategic Security Investment Guidance
Receive expert recommendations on security investments based on collaborative testing. Our purple team identifies which security tools, processes and training deliver the greatest defensive improvement for your specific environment.
Reduce Mean Time to Detection and Response
Accelerate your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to threats. Through collaborative testing and capability development, purple team assessments measurably reduce the time between initial compromise and effective response.
Purple Team Assessment Objectives
Our purple team assessments are designed to address your organisation’s specific defensive improvement goals:
Improve Detection Coverage
Identify blind spots in security monitoring and develop detection rules addressing gaps. Our purple team tests current detection capabilities whilst building coverage for previously undetected attack techniques.
Enhance Analyst Capabilities
Develop your security analysts’ skills through hands-on collaboration with experienced red team operators. Analysts learn to recognise subtle indicators of compromise, investigate security events effectively and respond to threats confidently.
Develop Custom Detection Rules
Create tailored detection rules for your specific environment, technology stack and threat landscape. Our purple team develops SIEM rules, EDR configurations and custom analytics addressing your organisation’s unique security monitoring needs.
Optimise Security Tool Configurations
Fine-tune security tools to maximise detection effectiveness whilst minimising false positives. Purple team assessments identify configuration improvements for SIEM, EDR, IDS and other security platforms based on realistic attack testing.
Build Threat Hunting Programmes
Establish or enhance threat hunting capabilities within your security operations centre. Our purple team develops threat hunting methodologies, investigation playbooks and proactive detection strategies tailored to your environment.
Strengthen Incident Response Procedures
Improve incident response plans, procedures and team coordination through realistic attack scenarios. Purple team assessments identify response gaps and develop enhanced procedures based on collaborative testing.
Why Choose Razorthorn for a Purple Team Assessment?
CREST Certified Expertise
Our purple team specialists hold CREST certifications demonstrating advanced technical skills in both offensive and defensive security. This dual expertise ensures effective collaboration between attack and defence perspectives.
18 Years of Security Testing Experience
Since 2007, Razorthorn has conducted advanced security assessments across diverse organisations. Our extensive experience in both red team and blue team activities ensures effective purple team collaboration.
Collaborative Methodology
Our purple team assessments genuinely combine red and blue team expertise rather than simply coordinating separate activities. This collaborative approach maximises learning, capability development and sustainable security improvement.
Intelligence-Driven Attack Scenarios
We simulate realistic attack scenarios based on current threat intelligence and adversary tactics relevant to your organisation. This realism ensures detection capabilities developed during purple team assessments address genuine threats.
Sustainable Capability Development
Beyond immediate improvements, we help build sustainable defensive capabilities your team can maintain and enhance independently. Purple team assessments create lasting security improvements rather than temporary fixes.
Purple Team Assessment Enquiry
Enhance your detection and response capabilities through collaborative purple team assessment from Razorthorn’s CREST certified security experts. Our purple team combines attack simulation with defensive improvement, building sustainable security capabilities whilst identifying gaps.
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