Purple Teaming: When Hackers and Defenders Join Forces
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Summary
The practice of ‘purple teaming’, where hackers and corporate defenders collaborate to improve cyber defences, is gaining traction among businesses seeking to gain an edge over malicious attackers.
Purple teams do not work separately but rather bring together red and blue teams, allowing the security guardians (the blue team) to work together with the attackers (the red team) to improve system defences.
The traditional way of working, where red teams find vulnerabilities and write reports, which are actioned by the blue teams months later, leaves systems vulnerable as the landscape may have changed.
Purple teams allow for constant communication and adaptive learning to combat this issue, with both teams working together in real-time and reacting to threats as they happen.
Benefits of purple teaming include threat detection, improved incident response times, increased security awareness and reduced false positives.
To make the most of purple teaming, it’s important to have shared goals, common monitoring tools and continuous collaboration.