Purple teaming is in its infancy as an operational concept. This paper expands the generally understood definition of purple teaming to a new paradigm of collaborative, continuous assessment that helps cybersecurity teams achieve their ultimate shared goal: detection and response to improve their organizational cybersecurity.
Effective purple teaming addresses:
- Terminology, definitions and assumptions
- Problems with the red team vs. blue team status quo
- An expanded concept of purple teaming
- Solutions for adopting a purple-teaming paradigm