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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

Attack prediction and threat feeds

We have already discussed, in Chapter 3, Carrying Out Adversary Emulation with CTI, how CTI is supposed to help focus our efforts on what really matters, on what is likely to hit us. Attack prediction could be seen as part of a CTI practice. It follows the same mindset and should allow predicting what attacks we are going to face in the coming days or weeks.

Threat feeds are also a part of CTI. This is the tactical part of CTI that deals with IOC in the lower part of the Pyramid of Pain. Threat feeds can help add context to events.

Both topics will be covered in the next sections.

Prediction

We discussed prevention, hunting, and detection, so then what about prediction? This may look unrealistic but if implemented correctly, a prediction strategy could be an invaluable asset to anticipate incoming attacks and better understand our attackers' profiles. This part could represent itself as a dedicated book, but here, we tried to present...