Purple Teaming
Strengthen your organisation’s cyber security maturity through collaborative Purple Teaming exercises that enhance your detection and response capabilities
Enhance your detection and response capabilities through collaborative Purple Teaming exercises
Purple Teaming is a dynamic and collaborative exercise that brings together offensive (Red Team) and defensive (Blue Team) cyber security experts to assess how well an organisation can withstand real-world cyber-attacks.
This approach goes beyond standard security testing by facilitating an open forum where both teams work together to identify gaps in detection and response capabilities through various simulations and tabletop exercises.
Our Purple Teaming Services
At LRQA, our Purple Teaming services are designed to be scalable, measurable, and repeatable, tailored to meet your organisation's specific needs. We leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework along with breach and attack simulation (BAS) technology to ensure comprehensive tracking and correlation of activities by both the Red and Blue teams. This approach not only strengthens your Blue Team’s capabilities but also ensures continuous improvement in your organisation’s ability to detect and mitigate threats. Our Purple Teaming service can be customised to include varying levels of threat actor sophistication, allowing your organisation to gain a deeper understanding of potential vulnerabilities and improve security measures accordingly.
Tactics, techniques and procedures coverage assessment
A standardised, scalable assessment that evaluates your organisation's detection capability across a wide range of tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Collaborative Red Teaming
Real-time simulated attacks where the Red and Blue teams work together, improving threat-hunting skills and detection capabilities.
Attack chain discovery
Exercises designed to challenge assumptions about your preventative controls and assess risk across the organisation.
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) technology integration
BAS technology enhances our Purple Teaming by automating and scaling TTP emulation, enabling consistent, repeatable testing and deeper insights into cyber-attack elements.
Award-winning expertise
Our cyber security team continues to achieve multiple vendor certifications, highly respected industry accreditations and international accolades, demonstrating the breadth, depth and impact of their services.
Benefits of Purple Teaming
Purple Teaming offers a unique advantage by not only identifying vulnerabilities but also validating the effectiveness of your defensive controls against real-world threats. The benefits of Purple Teaming include:
• Enhancing your security team’s ability to detect and respond to the latest cyber threats.
• Using industry-recognised metrics to assess and prove the effectiveness of your current security measures.
• By uncovering detection thresholds, your organisation can improve its overall cyber security posture.
Our approach Purple Teaming
At LRQA, our Purple Teaming services are designed to be scalable, measurable, repeatable and tailored to meet your organisation's specific needs. We leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework along with breach and attack simulation technology to ensure comprehensive tracking and correlation of activities by both the Red and Blue teams. This approach not only strengthens your Blue Team’s capabilities but also ensures continuous improvement in your organisation’s ability to detect and mitigate threats. Our Purple Teaming service can be customised to include varying levels of threat actor sophistication, allowing your organisation to gain a deeper understanding of potential vulnerabilities and improve security measures accordingly.
Why work with us?
Specialist expertise
Our cyber security experts hold multiple vendor certifications and accreditations as well as highly respected industry accreditations from CREST, the PCI SSC, ISC2, BCI, Chartered Institute of IT, and NCSC CHECK.
Industry leadership
We lead and shape industry on advisory boards and councils including the PCI SSC Global Executive Assessor Roundtable and CREST councils in the Americas, Asia, EMEA and the UK. We are certified by a range of governing bodies including the payment card industry and are approved as a Qualified Security Assessor.
Everywhere you are
Operating in over 55 countries, with more than 250 dedicated cyber security specialists and over 300 highly qualified information security auditors across the world, we can provide a local service with a globally consistent dedication to excellence.
Award winners
We have been recognised for the breadth and depth of our services – including the TEISS Award for Best Penetration Testing Service in 2024, Enterprise Threat Detection and Cloud Security awards at the Security Excellence Awards 2024 and the Stratus Award for Best Managed Cloud Security Service.
Partner with LRQA
When partnering with LRQA, you gain access to a global team of cyber security experts with extensive experience in both offensive and defensive strategies. Our consultants hold the highest industry certifications, including CREST, ensuring that your organisation benefits from the latest in cyber security best practices.
Our Purple Teaming services are enhanced using cutting-edge technology and methodologies, ensuring your organisation’s cyber security maturity is continuously improved, and your critical assets are protected against evolving threats.
The world leader in CREST accreditations
We are proud to be the only organisation in the world with a full suite of accreditations from The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST).
Our team of consultants have achieved the highest accreditations for Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Incident Response services and Threat Intelligence. In addition, we were also the first organisation to be CREST accredited for our Security Operation Centre services.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do you need purple teaming?
Purple teaming is distinct from other testing methods, instead of attacking an organisation and delivering post-test results, purple teaming executes known TTPs to test whether your defensive controls are effective and whether your policies and processes back up those controls.
How do you make Purple Teaming scalable, measurable, and repeatable?
LRQA ensures that Purple Teaming is scalable, measurable, and repeatable by using the MITRE ATT&CK framework and advanced breach and attack simulation (BAS) technology. This approach enables Red and Blue teams to track activities, identify gaps, and improve threat detection. By focusing on critical areas of visibility and detection, we help your organisation strengthen its security posture and address vulnerabilities effectively.
Providing Security Testing to a leading UK financial investment company
This client had previously experienced a high number of vulnerabilities, from which LRQA was able to help. The services implemented provided the client with a proactive and threat-led approach; informed by our offensive and threat intelligence teams to protect against the latest industry threats.
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