Purple Teaming Services
Collaborative security testing built to strengthen detection and response
You have invested in firewalls, monitoring tools, and a security team. What you likely have not tested is whether all of it works together against a real attack while it is happening. Purple teaming closes that gap. It brings your defensive team and BPM’s offensive security colleagues into the same room, working the same simulated attack in real time, so you get proof of what your organization would actually detect and how quickly your team would respond, not just a list of vulnerabilities. Most security testing tells you where the door was unlocked. Purple teaming tells you whether anyone noticed someone walk through it.
The Detection & Response Challenges Organizations Face
Somewhere in your building right now, an alert may be flashing on a screen no one is watching closely enough, or your team may be confident their tools would catch it if it did. You will not know which one is true until it actually happens, and by then, it is too late to test it. Here are the moments that catch security leaders off guard:
- You have invested in SIEM, EDR, or XDR tooling, built out alerting and escalation procedures on paper, and still do not know whether any of it would catch a real attack in progress.
- A regulator, cyber insurance carrier, or board committee is asking for evidence that your detection and response capabilities have been tested, not just your perimeter defenses, and “we have a plan” is no longer a sufficient answer.
- Previous penetration tests have told you where your vulnerabilities are, but you still do not know how your team would detect, escalate, and respond if someone exploited one of them today.
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How Purple Teaming Differs from Traditional Penetration Testing
A standard penetration test answers one question: can an attacker get in? It rarely answers the question that matters most to your security operations, which is whether your team would notice, and what they would do about it.
Red team and blue team colleagues working in isolation, or on opposite sides of a report handed off weeks later, miss the real value of the exercise. Purple teaming puts both sides at the same table for the same engagement, turning testing into a live feedback loop instead of a one-way report.
What a Modern Purple Teaming Engagement Should Deliver
A purple teaming engagement should give you more than a findings document. It should provide:
- Real-time validation of detection rules, alerting thresholds, and escalation workflows against active, simulated attacks
- Clear evidence of what your SIEM, EDR, and XDR platforms catch, miss, or misclassify at each stage of an attack
- Practical, prioritized recommendations your team can put to work immediately, not a findings list that sits in a folder
- Documentation you can present to a board, an insurance carrier, or a regulator as proof of tested response capabilities
How BPM Approaches Purple Teaming
BPM’s cybersecurity colleagues have performed thousands of penetration tests nationwide since 1998, and that offensive testing depth is what makes our purple teaming engagements collaborative rather than theoretical. A typical engagement follows a structured path built around:
Strategic Planning
Initial planning to define scope, objectives, and the threat scenarios most relevant to your industry and risk profile
Joint Attack Simulation
Joint attack simulation with MITRE ATT&CK framework alongside your internal security team or Security Operations Center
Real-Time Debriefs
Debrief sessions throughout the engagement, not only at the end, so lessons get applied in real time
Security Coverage Validation
Coverage mapping across procedures to validate SIEM, EDR, & XDR performance against realistic attacker behavior
Final Reporting
Final reporting with prioritized recommendations tied to your specific detection and response gaps
Building Detection & Response Capability for the Long Term
As your organization adds new systems, cloud platforms, and integrations, your attack surface grows and so do the assumptions built into your detection and response program. A one-time purple teaming exercise, or a recurring program built into your broader security strategy, gives you real evidence instead of assumptions about how your team and your tools would perform under attack.
You have invested heavily in your security tooling, your team, and your reputation with clients and regulators. That investment deserves the same scrutiny you would apply to any other part of your business. BPM’s cybersecurity colleagues help organizations build a foundation of tested, collaborative security assurance that supports today’s operations and tomorrow’s growth.
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