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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 13: PTX – Automation and DevOps Approach

The previous chapter introduced the concept of Purple Teaming Extended (PTX) for leveraging different security controls mechanisms to improve the company's whole security posture at multiple layers. The different pieces of code that were provided as Proof of Concepts (PoCs) were designed to run independently. In this chapter, we will describe how it is possible to industrialize these checks with the centralization, monitoring, security, and workflows approach while relying on a DevOps approach. We will focus on the Active Directory controls use case, which was referenced in the previous chapter as Purpling Active Directory security, to provide a step-by-step DevOps approach for automation. The same methodology can be used for all the Chapter 12, Purple Teaming eXtended, examples and extended to any other controls.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Practical workflow
  • Rundeck initialization
  • Integration...