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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

The purple teaming maturity model

Whether our blue team is composed of one person or a full SOC and Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), the maturity model should give us a place to start and help us make our way up to the top.

We, humbly, tried to develop a new approach while having in mind that the industry is overwhelmed with new tools, acronyms, frameworks, and models every day. So, we tried to stick to something simple and applicable to any kind of organization. We strongly believe that this practical model to purple teaming will help anyone succeed:

Table 2.2 – The purple teaming maturity model

As we can see here, the model is meant to fit any organization's size. Of course, third-party tools or services can help in fulfilling a role, as stated previously. Maturity levels are not meant to be aligned between all teams. It is also important to keep in mind automation as we mature; repeated activities must be automated as much...