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Purple Teaming

Find out how well your organisation prevents, detects and responds to realistic attacker behaviour, with your own team involved every step of the way. CloudGuard’s service tests meaningful attack scenarios collaboratively, validating how your controls perform in practice and turning findings into clear, prioritised actions.

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service Overview

What We Test And Why It Matters

Our service is collaborative and improvement-focused. Rather than testing your organisation in isolation, we work alongside your team to validate controls and turn what we find into practical change during the engagement itself.

Detection and response validation

We assess how effectively your team detects, investigates and responds to attack activity as it unfolds, including visibility, escalation and containment.

 

Realistic attacker simulation

We simulate current and emerging Tactics, Techniques and Procedures across the cyber kill chain, so testing reflects genuine attacker behaviour rather than generic checks.

ATT&CK-aligned maturity measurement

We map activity to recognised frameworks such as ATT&CK, giving you a structured, evidence-based view of security performance and maturity.

Collaborative knowledge transfer

We work with your team throughout the exercise, explaining what’s happening in real time and highlighting where detection is strong and where it needs improvement.

OUR APPROACH

A Collaborative Exercise Focused On Improvement

We deliver this service as a collaborative effort focused on improvement, not on creating noise or disruption, helping you identify risk and strengthen defences through realistic testing.

Phase 1: Define scope and objectives

We work with your team to understand the environment, the attack paths that matter most and the security questions you want answered, keeping the exercise aligned to business priorities.

Phase 2: Gain access using current techniques

We simulate initial access in a controlled way, using current and emerging techniques to reflect how a realistic attacker would first enter your environment.

Phase 3: Avoid and evade detection

We test whether existing controls would detect or block attempts to avoid detection and maintain a presence within your environment over time.

Phase 4: Escalate privileges and move laterally

We escalate privileges, gather intelligence and move laterally across systems, testing how far an attacker could progress towards sensitive systems or data.

Phase 5: Collaborate and improve during the exercise

As the engagement progresses, we work closely with your team to explain what's happening, highlight where detection is strong and identify where changes are needed.

Phase 6: Report and prioritise

You receive structured outputs including an attack narrative, attack path mapping and prioritised recommendations, linking findings to detection engineering and governance priorities.

SECURITY DONE DIFFERENT

A Practical, Collaborative Approach To Real-World Improvement

We do more than simulate attacker behaviour. We work with your team to explain findings clearly, validate how existing controls perform and turn outcomes into actions that strengthen detection and response.

Readiness

We test how your controls and processes perform against realistic attack activity, working alongside your team rather than testing in isolation.

Responsiveness

We show how your team detects, investigates and responds as a scenario unfolds, and where escalation or triage needs to improve.

Resilience

We help you build lasting capability through direct knowledge transfer, not just a one-off exercise, supporting longer-term security improvement.

WHO ITS FOR

For Organisations That Want To Improve, Not Just Identify Gaps

CISOs and security leaders

Looking for a clearer view of readiness, stronger confidence in detection and response, and better evidence for leadership reporting.

IT leaders

Responsible for strengthening internal capability, who want practical, collaborative testing rather than an isolated technical exercise.

Security and IT teams

Who want direct knowledge transfer and hands-on involvement in validating controls, improving workflows and strengthening response.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between purple teaming and penetration testing?

Penetration testing is mainly focused on identifying vulnerabilities that could be exploited. Purple teaming goes further by testing how well your organisation detects and responds as the scenario develops, with your own team directly involved throughout. It gives you a more complete view of resilience and builds internal capability at the same time, rather than leaving you with just a list of weaknesses to work through afterwards.

No.It is designed to be controlled and non-destructive. The purpose is to simulate realistic attack behaviour without creating unnecessary operational impact. Scope and constraints are agreed in advance with your team, so the service remains useful and manageable, and testing stays aligned to what matters most for your organisation.

This type of service is usually most valuable for security leaders, IT leaders and the internal teams responsible for monitoring, investigation and response. Because it is collaborative, these teams are directly involved throughout the exercise rather than only receiving results at the end. Senior stakeholders may also be involved in reviewing outcomes and agreeing next steps.

You will receive structured outputs such as an executive summary, scope overview, full attack narrative, attack path mapping, practical recommendations and prioritised next steps. These outputs are designed to help both technical teams and leadership understand the findings and act on them, alongside the knowledge transfer that’s built into the engagement itself.

Yes. It can support a broader security improvement programme by highlighting where detection engineering, governance, processes and defensive controls need attention. It also works well alongside Security Posture Assessment, Managed XDR, Cybersecurity Managed Services and CISO Advisory Services, forming part of an ongoing programme rather than a single, standalone exercise.

Red Teaming testing does test and prove an organisations readiness and performance in the event of a real-world cyber event. A Purple Teaming event takes this to the next level working with each organisation to identify the risk, mitigate the risk, complete knowledge transfer whilst improving security team experience and confidence. It is the closest thing to improving real world attack performance.

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