A purple teaming definition
You might have noticed that we didn't define purple teaming in the first chapter. Therefore, let's start this chapter by defining what purple teaming is and what it is not.
First of all, purple teaming is not a dedicated team. So, be reassured that you don't need to hire additional, hard-to-find security experts to build a new team. In fact, teaming is simply the act of working together as a team. As we've seen in the previous chapter, there are issues currently faced by the traditional approach to red (offensive) and blue (defensive) concepts around security. Purple teaming joins both the red and the blue teams toegther to act as a virtual team during an exercise called purple teaming. This will ensure that both teams' goals are aligned and that both teams have incentives to help each other.
Purple teaming solves the issue with the success of one means the failure of the other mindset and helps an organization to optimize...