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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

Chapter 12: PTX – Purple Teaming eXtended

The previous chapters described how it was possible to leverage the red and blue forces for creating a purple teaming process relying, when possible, on automation and typical purple products such as Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS). Chapter 2, Purple Teaming – a Generic Approach and a New Model, described all the process workflows clearly reflecting that the main concept is being able to generate some active checks (like an attacker would perform), and in the meantime, making sure that these active checks are detected or blocked. We have also seen that automation is a major key to the purple teaming process's success. Different purple teaming applications exist along with many commercial solutions to answer this need: from our point of view, these typical approaches can be improved and extended.

As explained in Chapter 2, Purple Teaming – a Generic Approach and a New Model, we believe that the purple teaming...