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Purple Team Strategies

By : David Routin, Simon Thoores, Samuel Rossier
Book Image

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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen an overview of the infrastructure components that can be used to conduct to perform purple teaming exercises. As always with any kind of project, we must start small and simple before maturing our capabilities. Some solutions exist to help us automate, test, report, and document our assessments. We have seen the ART projects that can help us automate test cases one by one. We have also discussed Caldera and VECTR, two useful free solutions allowing us to define and test simulation/emulation plans. We also introduced Picus Security, which can help us to implement automated testing in a different way. Finally, we broached the topic of DevOps to identify mechanisms and tools that could ease our life when it comes to performing purple teaming exercises.

In the next chapter, we will go through the MITRE ATT&CK tactics at an atomic level to see how some of the most relevant attackers' techniques can be prevented, detected, and hunted.

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