Practical Purple Teaming - The Art of Collaborative Defense

This practical introduction to collaborative security testing, or “purple teaming,” is a hands-on, lab-based guide to key methodologies for cybersecurity practitioners in any field. Many organizations have chosen to forgo traditional security tests in favor of collaborative assessments – or “purple team” tests, for the way they combine offensive (“red team”) and defensive (“blue team”) elements – in which offensive and defensive teams work together to measure and improve the organization’s resilience to attacks. Along the way, they’ll be introduced to a number of open-source tools for emulating enterprise environments, automating attacks, crafting intelligent alerts, and more. Covers numerous free tools readers could use in their own purple team exercises, offensive frameworks, and defensive technologies.

About the author

Alfie Champion

Product details

• Authors: Alfie Champion
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2025
• EAN: 9781718504288
• ISBN: 978-1-71850-428-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing; COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft, COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Server, Windows & variants, Microsoft (Windows) operating systems, Network Security, Microsoft programming, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security