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Purple Team Strategies

By : David Routin, Simon Thoores, Samuel Rossier
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Purple Team Strategies

By: David Routin, Simon Thoores, Samuel Rossier

Overview of this book

With small to large companies focusing on hardening their security systems, the term "purple team" has gained a lot of traction over the last couple of years. Purple teams represent a group of individuals responsible for securing an organization’s environment using both red team and blue team testing and integration – if you’re ready to join or advance their ranks, then this book is for you. Purple Team Strategies will get you up and running with the exact strategies and techniques used by purple teamers to implement and then maintain a robust environment. You’ll start with planning and prioritizing adversary emulation, and explore concepts around building a purple team infrastructure as well as simulating and defending against the most trendy ATT&CK tactics. You’ll also dive into performing assessments and continuous testing with breach and attack simulations. Once you’ve covered the fundamentals, you'll also learn tips and tricks to improve the overall maturity of your purple teaming capabilities along with measuring success with KPIs and reporting. With the help of real-world use cases and examples, by the end of this book, you'll be able to integrate the best of both sides: red team tactics and blue team security measures.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Concept, Model, and Methodology
6
Part 2: Building a Purple Infrastructure
12
Part 3: The Most Common Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Defenses
14
Part 4: Assessing and Improving

Chapter 9: Purple Team Infrastructure

We will now address the final chapter of Part 2, Building a Purple Infrastructure. We will review the infrastructure components usually necessary to perform purple teaming exercises. We will take a high-level point of view and see how everything works together, as well as determining the need for the specifics on purple teaming. We will briefly review the key differences between simulation and emulation.

Then, we will take a deep dive into different kinds of solutions, from atomic testing to fully automated simulation/emulation campaigns. Indeed, we will explore how to use and leverage Atomic Red Team (ART), Cyber Adversary Language and Detection Engine for Red team (Caldera), Picus Security, and VECTR. These represent a snippet of all the solutions that exist out there, but they should give a good understanding of the different types and approaches chosen by developers and security companies.

We will finish the chapter by discussing how...