Practical Purple Teaming : The Art of Collaborative Defense

Many organizations have chosen to forgo traditional security tests in favour of collaborative assessments - or 'purple team' tests, for the way they combine offensive ('red team') and defensive ('blue team') elements - in which offensive and defensive teams work together to measure and improve the organization's resilience to attacks.Practical Purple Teaming outlines common purple team methodologies, offensive and defensive frameworks, and real-world threat research to craft realistic test cases.Readers will use a dedicated lab environment to execute attacks common to the modern threat landscape, then consider ways of tuning defences to detect and prevent the activity.Along the way, they'll be introduced to a number of open-source tools for emulating enterprise environments, automating attacks, crafting intelligent alerts, and more.Covers numerous free tools readers could use in their own purple team exercises, offensive frameworks, and defensive technologies.