Red, Blue and Purple Teams: Combining Your Security Capabilities for the Best Outcome

Traditional security operations often mean pitting the red team--which focuses on hacking and penetration testing to uncover weakness--against the more defensive stance of the blue team. With daily news of breaches and attacks, its critical to examine these techniques and see if new or supplemental approaches are needed. One such new approach: Going purple by merging the best capabilities and outcomes of the red and blue teams for a more proactive position.