Purple Team Testing
Our Purple Team Testing acts as a collaborative adversary simulation, proving your detection and response works, not just your defences.
Purple Team Testing Overview
What Is Purple Teaming?
Purple team testing brings your defensive team and our offensive specialists together in a single, collaborative exercise, working side by side as attack techniques are executed to validate detection, tune alerts, and close gaps as they’re found.
Organisations choose purple team testing when they already have detection and response capability in place, such as SIEM, EDR, a SOC, or an MSSP solution, and need to know whether it works against real attacker behaviour. It’s less about “can someone get in” and more about “would we notice, and would we respond correctly, if they did.”
Is purple team testing right for you? If you already have a SOC, SIEM, or EDR in place and want to validate and improve it, yes. If you don’t yet have detection capability in place, a penetration test or red team exercise is likely a better starting point – purple team testing is built to sharpen existing capability, not establish one.
Purple Team Benefits
What Are The Benefits of Purple Teaming?
Because testing and defence happen together, the value shows up immediately, not just in a report you read weeks later.
Faster, actionable results
Findings are validated and discussed in real time, not just delivered in a final report.
Real detection gaps
Every test maps to known adversary techniques, so gaps reflect genuine risk rather than hypothetical scenarios.
Measurable improvement
Retesting shows whether tuning and process changes actually close the gaps identified.
Return on investment
Organisations aren't getting value from their security tooling. Purple team testing shows where value is missed.
Purple Team Test Coverage
What Our Purple Team Testing Covers
Our purple team engagements are tailored to your environment, but typically draw on the MITRE ATT&CK framework to structure coverage across:
Detection Across The Kill Chain
Initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, defence evasion, credential access, lateral movement, command & control, and exfiltration.
SOC & Analyst Performance
Alert fidelity, time to detect, time to respond, triage accuracy, and escalation effectiveness.
Security Tooling Validation
EDR/XDR, SIEM correlation rules, email security, network detection (IDS/IPS/NDR), and identity and access controls.
Incident Response Process
How effectively alerts translate into action, including handoffs between SOC tiers and IR playbook execution.
Threat-Informed Scenarios
Emulation of adversary groups, malware families, or campaigns relevant to your sector and risk profile.
Cloud & Hybrid Environments
Detection coverage across cloud-native tooling and hybrid infrastructure, where relevant to your environment.
Purple Team Approach
Our Approach To Testing
A four-stage process, from scoping through to proof that the gaps we find actually get closed.
1. Understanding Your Requirements
We start by understanding your environment, your existing detection capabilities, third-party SLAs and what "good" looks like for your organisation. This shapes a scenario and technique set that reflects genuine risk to your business, not a generic checklist.
2. Expert Led, Manual Testing
Our testers execute techniques manually against your live environment, working through scenarios that mirror real attacker behaviour. This isn't automated tooling running a script, every test is carried out and validated by hand.
3. Tailored reporting & Collaborative Approach
We work directly with internal security teams, discussing what fired, what didn't, and why, in real time. Reporting reflects this collaboration: clear findings mapped to ATT&CK, prioritised by risk, with specific tuning recommendations rather than generic advice.
4. Post-Test Support & Remediation
Testing doesn't end at the report. We support your team through remediation and tuning and offer retesting to confirm that gaps identified have actually been closed, so you can demonstrate measurable improvement over time..
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Find Out More About Our Purple Team
Not sure whether purple team testing is the right fit for where your detection capability is today? Get in touch and we’ll help you scope the right engagement, no obligation.
Talk to our team about scoping a purple team engagement for your environment.