Integrate red and blue team strategies for resilience

Enhance SOC effectiveness with live, collaborative attack simulations that build detection speed and coordinated response.

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Purple Teaming

Train your defenders through collaborative live attack simulations

Purple team engagements blend offensive tactics with defensive collaboration. Cythera simulates live attacks across your internal network while working directly with your SOC to test detections and refine response. This hands-on approach highlights missed signals, improves alert fidelity, and builds your team’s confidence under pressure.

Validate detection coverage through real-world attack simulations
Equip SOC analysts with experience handling attacker techniques
Reduce alert fatigue and false negatives by improving tuning

Service detail

What your SOC can learn from Purple Teaming

By merging red team tactics with blue team analysis, Purple Team Exercises test how well your organisation detects and responds to real-time threats—helping uncover blind spots and refine defences.

Collaborative defence that sharpens your edge.

Joint threat simulations with real operational benefit. We partner with your team to run practical exercises that:

Build early detection skills and shorten response time to attacks
Expose blind spots and tuning issues in your current toolset
Improve defences through shared learning between offensive and defensive teams

Our delivery process

Delivering a Purple Team engagement

We aim to empower your security operations team by enhancing their skills in identifying and reacting to genuine cyber threats.

Threat simulation

We prepare your environment for threat simulation, using a blend of automated tools and manual adversary emulation techniques.

Blue team response

Execute defensive team procedures to detect and investigate attacker behaviours in real time.

Detection engineering

Leverage insights from the exercise to fine-tune detection strategies, strengthen monitoring, and close potential security gaps.

Benefits

Why organisations choose us for Purple Teaming

Strengthen your defences by identifying and containing threats early—before they become costly incidents.

Highly-skilled consultants

Our consultants collaborate with your team from planning to reporting—enhancing your threat detection and response capabilities at every step.

Proven experience

Our Purple Team exercises reveal detection gaps and sharpen response capabilities—helping teams across sectors build stronger defences.

Expert insights

Enhance your defences with expert-led insight, red/blue team alignment, and collaborative feedback that drives measurable improvement.

What comes next

Expand your security coverage

Red teaming puts your defences to the test — simulating real attacks to see how your people, systems and processes hold up under pressure. We help you prepare, execute and learn from these exercises to sharpen your detection and response capabilities.

Emulate a credible threat actor to uncover hidden vulnerabilities
Stress-test detection and incident response under realistic conditions
Build organisational confidence through tailored attack simulations

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Web Filter, CASB & DLP (Cloud Access Security Broker & Data Loss Prevention)

Monitor and manage how users interact with cloud, web, and AI platforms — including movement of sensitive data.

Web Application Penetration Testing

Uncover hidden flaws in your web apps — from session handling to access controls — through in-depth security reviews.

Frequently asked questions

From risk assessment to rapid response - we’re with you every step of the way.

What's the difference between a Purple Team and a Red Team engagement?

Red Teams emulate live attackers without alerting your defenders, testing your detection and response. Purple Teams work alongside your team to strengthen both during the simulation.

Who is Purple Teaming suited for?

Purple Team exercises are ideal for organisations that already have security tools and teams in place but want to test and enhance their detection and response capabilities in real-world scenarios.