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Purple team cybersecurity testing services
Validate and strengthen your defenses against real adversary techniques with your blue team and Group-IB’s offensive specialists working together. Group-IB experts execute the attacks, explain every technique as it unfolds, and help your team fine-tune its detection and response strategies on the spot.
95%
of incidents handled by Group-IB triggered at least one alert — detection did not guarantee action
1 in 3
techniques tested by Group-IB’s red team bypass security controls
3 weeks
is the average post-ransomware downtime
Our offensive specialists work alongside your defenders while the attack is unfolding, using scenarios drawn from Group-IB Threat Intelligence. This gives your team the opportunity to see exactly how an attacker can move through your environment and whether your controls are able to catch it — or not! — and learn on the go from continuous expert feedback.
Your organization can never be confident that your security team will respond effectively until they are
attack-tested against real-world techniques.
Get the most out of synergetic testing
Confirm what your tools actually catch
Simulate attacks against your actual environment and find out which controls hold and which do not, before an adversary does.
Nurture defenders who think like attackers
Your SOC team witnesses the attack unfold and is involved in countering it. They learn attacker behavior firsthand.
Close gaps while the context is still fresh
Detection rules get fine-tuned, playbooks get updated, and blind spots get documented on the fly.
Prove your security investment is working
Walk away with evidence you can take to the board: validated coverage, measurable improvements, and an actionable roadmap.
Purple team exercises cover the full spectrum of modern attacker behavior while validating and
improving defensive capabilities. Each scenario is scoped to your environment, mapped to MITRE
ATT&CK techniques, and executed as your defensive team actively takes part.
Simulates ransomware execution on endpoints to evaluate prevention, detection, containment, and recovery capabilities.
Simulates the use of leaked credentials against exposed services to test identity protection and detection.
Simulates AD abuse techniques to assess identity security, privilege escalation, and domain resilience.
Simulates a trusted user extracting sensitive data to assess monitoring, alerting, and response controls.
Simulates compromised credentials within your environment to assess the ability to detect internal account abuse and lateral movement.
Simulates reconnaissance activities within Active Directory to test detection of enumeration and pre-attack intelligence gathering.
Simulates a trusted third party or software update being abused to gain initial access into the environment.
Simulates attacks against web applications to test application controls, input validation, and monitoring visibility.
Recreates a real incident observed in your environment to validate whether detection accuracy and response actions have improved since the incident occurred.
Both approaches are valuable. The difference lies in a collaborative vs an adversarial approach — and in when the learning happens. It’s your call.
Red teaming
Purple teaming
Objective
Find exploitable weaknesses and measure resilience under realistic attack conditions
Improve detection engineering, response processes, and operational readiness
Blue team involvement
Typically unaware until reporting. The test simulates a real adversary
Actively participates during execution. The team learns while the attack is unfolding
Knowledge transfer
Limited during execution. Findings delivered at the end of the engagement
Continuous. Offensive specialists explain techniques in real time
Detection improvement
Post-engagement report and debrief
Throughout the engagement. Detection rules are fine-tuned immediately
Best for
Mature security programs. Realistic adversary simulation. Compliance testing
Building detection capability. Improving SOC maturity. Team development
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Build realistic simulations based on your threat exposure and industry risks.
Execute attacks while your SOC monitors, investigates, and responds in real time.
Evaluate alert quality, visibility gaps, workflow efficiency, and tool configuration.
Share insights with your team, align on findings, and prioritize detection and visibility gaps for remediation.
Walk away with validated security controls, improved SIEM and EDR rules, refined incident response playbooks, and a structured improvement roadmap.
Purple teaming is a collaborative cybersecurity testing approach where red and blue teams work together to simulate attacks, validate detection strategies, and improve incident response in real time.
Red teaming is adversarial and stealth focused, with findings delivered after the exercise. Purple teaming is collaborative, with continuous feedback designed to improve detection engineering and response processes during execution.
A penetration test helps to identify vulnerabilities. Purple teaming confirms whether your team can actually detect and respond to an attack. The output is not a list of findings — it is improved detection rules, tested playbooks, and a team that has effectively experienced a real attack sequence.
You will need a security monitoring capability and a team to engage with the exercise. Purple teaming is suitable for organizations with a functioning SOC, whether it is basic or advanced. The intake form helps us decide on the right scenario for your current maturity level.
Each engagement runs one to eight weeks, depending on the scenarios scoped and complexity.
Typical outcomes include validated detection coverage, improved SIEM and EDR rules, clearer monitoring gaps, refined incident response playbooks, and a structured improvement roadmap.
Yes. Exercises can simulate ransomware execution, credential abuse, Active Directory attacks, lateral movement, data exfiltration, and other common techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Yes. Purple teaming supports detection engineering, improves alert quality, strengthens workflows, and builds repeatable operational readiness.
Yes. Engagements can be delivered remotely, on site, or in a hybrid format.
PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and similar regulatory and testing frameworks.
Threat actors are always updating their techniques. A one-off engagement will give you a snapshot, while quarterly or monthly programs will give you a continuous improvement cycle that keeps pace with how attacks are evolving.
