Red Teaming, Blue Teaming, and Purple Teaming

As cyber threats grow in sophistication, organizations must go beyond traditional security measures to test and strengthen their defenses. SECOPS offers specialized Red Teaming, Blue Teaming, and Purple Teaming services to simulate real-world attacks, enhance defense mechanisms, and improve overall cybersecurity maturity.



Red Teaming

Red Teaming involves simulated cyberattacks performed by SECOPS’ ethical hackers to mimic the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real threat actors. The goal is to test an organization’s ability to detect, respond to, and recover from advanced attacks. Unlike standard penetration testing, Red Team engagements are stealthy, comprehensive, and designed to exploit weaknesses in both technology and human behavior.

Key Activities:

  • Social engineering (e.g., phishing)
  • Physical security testing
  • Network and application exploitation
  • Privilege escalation and lateral movement

Blue Teaming

The Blue Team consists of the organization’s internal or assigned defenders responsible for detecting and responding to cyber threats. SECOPS works with or trains internal teams to strengthen monitoring, threat detection, and incident response capabilities. The Blue Team uses tools like SIEMs, IDS/IPS, and log analyzers to defend against attacks.


Key Focus Areas:

  • Threat detection and correlation
  • Incident response planning
  • Log analysis and monitoring
  • Forensics and threat hunting

Purple Teaming

Purple Teaming bridges the gap between the offensive Red Team and the defensive Blue Team. In this collaborative approach, SECOPS facilitates real-time knowledge sharing between both teams to enhance learning and improve defenses. The objective is to use Red Team tactics to uncover gaps and immediately help the Blue Team address them.


Benefits of Purple Teaming:

  • Continuous feedback and improvement
  • Enhanced detection and prevention strategies
  • Stronger coordination between attack and defense teams
  • Custom training based on real-world attack simulations

Service Catalogue

Red Teaming

Participants learn adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to proactively identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an organization's defenses.

Blue Teaming

focuses on defensive cybersecurity strategies and Equips professionals with skills to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats.

Purple Teaming

Improves detection capabilities and the effectiveness of security controls simultaneously for stronger overall cybersecurity by developing and testing defenses in real time.