The Purple Team exists to ensure and maximize the effectiveness level of both Red and Blue Teams. This is accomplished through the integration of defensive and control tactics by the Blue Team with the threats and vulnerabilities found by the Red Team in a unique instance that guarantees that the efforts of both teams are being leveraged at the maximum.

In an ideal situation, the Red Team creates challenges for the Blue Team to solve. In doing so, both teams together are able to improve the organization security level and enhance the skills of all the people involved in the project.

Through the implementation of a Purple Team solution, a strong synergy is accomplished that delivers added value to the end result.

No. The internal security team and IT and development departments can perform the healing tasks that the Blue Team does. They would be able to understand the reports presented by a Red Team and make the necessary updates to mitigate any risks. With a Blue Team, tasks can be more robust to strategically plan the organization growth, but it isn’t vital to arrive at an acceptable security status.

The anticipated addition of the security processes to the development life cycle allows to ensure that the protection activities (architecture analysis, code review, penetration testing) are applied parallel to the development process, enabling a direct interaction between the teams. This synergy creates a robustness in the code that is impossible to achieve by any other means, while saving the organization both time and money.