Purple Teaming is a new approach to security testing that could be described as "collaborative Red Team testing." Normal Red Team assessments are heavily biased towards reality: Typically, the Blue Team or corporate IT department, with the exception of the team leader/manager, does not know about Red Teaming in order to preserve the reality of the attack simulation. In Purple Teaming, on the other hand, the attacked team knows it is under attack and works closely with the attackers. Here, the Red Team embodies the simulated attackers, while the Blue Team represents the defenders. This can be either a dedicated, permanent Blue Team in the company, the IT and administration department, an internal or external SOC, or the IT security department. Red T ...