Purple Team Operator

Purple teaming brings offensive and defensive teams together to test and improve detections collaboratively. This roadmap suits SOC analysts, detection engineers and testers. You need a lab with logging and a SIEM.

• Have a lab with endpoint logging and a SIEM
• Know MITRE ATT&CK basics
• Plan your study time

• CyberA4U Academy — courses

In a purple team exercise, testers run known techniques while defenders watch in real time, then both improve detections together — unlike a red team exercise that tests response blindly.

• Compare red, blue and purple exercises
• Define roles and goals
• Plan collaborative sessions

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE CTID — Adversary Emulation Library

MITRE ATT&CK gives both teams one vocabulary for techniques, so tests, detections and results line up.

• Map tests and detections to techniques
• Use ATT&CK Navigator for planning
• Report results by technique

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE ATT&CK — Getting started

Adversary emulation plans reproduce the behavior of real threat groups, based on public intelligence, in a controlled way.

• Choose relevant threats
• Build a safe emulation plan
• Define success criteria

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE CTID — Adversary Emulation Library

Atomic tests are small, safe technique simulations that check whether a specific detection works.

• Run atomic tests in a lab
• Clean up after each test
• Record detection results

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• Red Canary — Atomic Red Team

Measure outcomes per technique: detected, alerted, logged only, or missed — and how quickly.

• Define detection outcome categories
• Record results consistently
• Track improvement over time

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE ATT&CK Navigator

Every miss becomes a backlog item: new telemetry, a new detection, or a tuning change — and then a retest.

• Convert misses into specific tasks
• Assign owners and dates
• Retest after changes

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• Palantir — Alerting and Detection Strategy framework

Automation platforms such as MITRE Caldera run tests repeatedly so detections are checked continuously, not once.

• Automate safe technique execution
• Schedule regular test runs
• Compare results over time

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE Caldera documentation

Regular sessions — planning, live testing, and a short review — keep offense, defense and management aligned.

• Run planning and review meetings
• Share results in a consistent format
• Agree on next priorities

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE ATT&CK — Getting started

Coverage dashboards show which techniques are tested and detected, and where gaps remain.

• Visualize coverage with ATT&CK Navigator
• Highlight gaps by priority
• Update after each session

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE ATT&CK Navigator

Even collaborative tests need rules: approved scope, safe techniques, timing, rollback plans and contacts in case something breaks.

• Define scope and approvals
• Choose safe techniques and test environments
• Plan rollback and communication

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• NIST SP 800-115 — Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

A campaign runs a series of sessions based on one threat's techniques, measuring detection before and after improvements.

• Plan a multi-session campaign
• Measure baseline and improvement
• Report outcomes to leadership

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE CTID — Adversary Emulation Library

Programs mature from occasional manual tests to regular, automated, threat-informed testing tied to detection engineering.

• Assess your current maturity
• Plan the next level
• Justify investment

الأدوات والتقنيات: Purple

• MITRE ATT&CK Navigator

Check that you can plan, run and measure a purple team exercise and turn the results into better detections.

• Plan tests with ATT&CK
• Run safe tests and measure outcomes
• Drive improvements and retest

• CyberA4U CTF Arena — practice challenges

You can now run purple team exercises. Continue with Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence or Red Team Operator.

• Keep testing regularly
• Choose your next roadmap
• Share your coverage results

• CyberA4U CTF Arena — practice challenges