The power of automation
As mentioned in the earlier sections, setting up a red team infrastructure, even a simple one without a robust multilayered architecture, requires quite a lot of setting up and configuration. This is something we do not want to perform at each iteration of the purple teaming exercise, as it will require too much effort to be efficient and increase the overall return on investment (ROI) of such assessments.
Depending on the levels of maturity and comfort in this field, we should think about automation. Even during the first assessments, we should look for the next exercise and start thinking about documenting the deployment and making copies/exports of the configurations (including VMs and scripts). This will help us to reduce the setup time for the next exercise, increasing, therefore, the ROI. Even if it is not the same scope or goal, there will always be a benefit to be had at one of the stages of the attack preparation phase.
Automation can be as simple...