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Improve your cyber detection with purple teaming

Detecting cyber threats requires a well-equipped SOC, trained to act and collaborate. Improve your detection capability to protect your organization and justify investment.

Read the F-Secure Guide to Purple Teaming

Cyber detection  is an arms race, fought between attackers and security analysts. Purple teaming is designed to help organizations build and iteratively develop a powerful detection and response capability. Ingest threat intelligence, simulate attacks across the kill chain, and identify high-risk blind spots.

  • Understand and take proactive measures against threat actors posing the greatest risk
  • Continuously develop methods and make investments that tackle those risks
  • Help SOC analysts develop skills and processes to augment detection tooling
  • Measure previous detection investment and demonstrate its impact to secure further investment

The outcome of a successful purple teaming exercise is the intricate account of an organization’s security posture based on its detection capabilities. Security teams are provided with specific, actionable recommendations for learning and improvement. CISOs are armed with coherent justifications for growth.

Learn about purple teaming from US security consultant Derek Stoeckenius

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Whitepaper

The F-Secure guide to purple teaming

Purple teaming is used to test and improve detection and response capability, traditionally, by utilizing the skills of red (offensive) and blue (defensive) teams in a competitive simulation. However, an alternative, collaborative approach blends the skills of both teams to maximize efficiencies, contextualize learnings, and increase the real-world relevance of the exercise. This paper explains demonstrates the process in-depth.

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Workshop Series: Attack Detection Fundamentals

Designed for blue teams and red teams in-house. Improve your use of detection techniques in your existing enterprise stack and master some you may not have heard of. These workshops refer to live attack examples, explain how detection techniques are effective against different attacks, and map each technique to the cyber kill chain. Hands-on demonstrations mean you apply what you learn straight away. The workshops cover initial access, code execution and persistence, discovery and lateral movement, and C2, and exfiltration.

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Cyber attack detection challenges and how to meet them 

Effective detection is an important factor in any organization’s cyber resilience, because responding to and recovering from an attack is largely contingent on the timely and targeted detection of threats. Research, purple team engagements, and live attacks show patterns in the challenges facing organizations and highlight the most effective ways to meet them.

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Tips for success when building a detection capability

This article considers the challenge of building and maintaining a detection capability that keeps pace with modern attackers, their goals, and their techniques. Recommendations and advice for this successful security monitoring function range from simply understanding your organization’s environment, to engaging in continuous, strategic and incremental simulation-based testing.

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Building cyber resilience by changing your approach to testing

Red teaming is an effective tool, but it can’t build and develop an organization’s capabilities; instead, it exercises an existing capability and demonstrates its level of effectiveness. Learn how purple teaming fits in to a range of other consultancy services designed to prepare for advanced cyber attacks and build lasting resilience against them. 

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How the cloud has changed detection

Some aspects of detection have changed in the cloud, not least of which the nature of data and the visibility available to defenders. That said, many things have stayed the same, especially attacker motivations. This allows defenders to translate many existing use cases into the cloud. In addition, effective defense considers how to best defend against the three most common exploitation vectors seen in the cloud at present: publicly-exposed resources, metadata service exploitation, credential theft, or accidental publication.
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On Demand

A More Effective Approach To Purple Teaming

Purple team exercises help SOCs detect attacks more effectively. By simulating attacks across the kill-chain, analysts can identify high-risk blind spots on their estate and develop an understanding of how attackers behave to conceal their movements. In this video, security consultant Derek Stoeckenius explains why and when organizations need purple teaming. 

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People, Process, Technology

Detecting sophisticated cyber attacks relies equally on the skills of SOC analysts, the processes at work in their team, and the technology they use. In this video, security consultant Derek Stoeckenius explains why the three interdependent elements of people, processes, and technology are equally important when building a resilient detection capability.

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