Purple Team
What is Purple Team?
A collaborative security approach where red team (offensive) and blue team (defensive) work together to improve detection capabilities and security posture.
Terms that appear alongside purple team
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as purple team. The number is how many controls name both.
- red team 9 shared controls
- ransomware 5 shared controls
- cybersecurity 5 shared controls
- lessons learned 5 shared controls
- blue team 5 shared controls
- resilience 5 shared controls
- threat intelligence 4 shared controls
- incident response 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern purple team
What the standards actually require on purple team
Requirements naming purple team across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
A replay/purple-teaming workshop is held where the red and blue teams walk through the attack scenarios together to maximise learning.
TIBER-3.3 · Replay and purple teaming workshop →The CAP must incorporate other assessment capabilities such as penetration testing of IT systems and red and purple team (adversarial perspective) testing.
tsa-pipeline-cybersecurity-directives::SD02-III.G.2.c · SD02 III.G.2.c Other assessment capabilities: penetration testing, red and purple teams →Throughout active testing the testers report at least weekly to the control team and test managers, and the threat intelligence provider stays available.
dora-rts-on-threat-led-penetration-testing-commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-1190::11.7 · Article 11(7) to (10): Progress reporting, leg-ups, detection and suspension →Kuwait NCF Respond and Recover functions. Incident Response and Reporting: documented Incident Response Plan + Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) + 24/7 incident hotline + Incident classification (severity + impact + urgency) + Triage + Containme...
KNCF-Respond-Incident-Response-Reporting-Recover-Business-Continuity-Cyber-Resilience-NCSC-Notification · Kuwait NCF Respond + Incident Response + Reporting + Recover + BC + Cyber Resilience + NCSC →FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer. SCOPE: building cybersecurity capacity in the constituency + the broader community through awareness + training + exercises + advisory.
FIRST-CSIRTF-SA5-KnowledgeTransfer · Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer (Awareness, Training, Exercises, Advisory) →X.805 Clause 8 defines 5 Threat Categories that the X.805 Security Architecture is designed to mitigate + provides a Threat-Dimension Countermeasure Matrix linking each threat to specific Dimensions.
X805-Threats-Destruction-Corruption-Removal-Disclosure-Interruption-72Cell-Matrix-Application · ITU-T X.805 5 Threat Categories - Destruction + Corruption + Removal + Disclosure + Interruption + Threat-Dimension Countermeasure Matrix + 72-Cell Matrix Application + STRIDE + MITRE ATT and CK + Network Modular Risk Assessment →Questions people ask about purple team
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