When performing a teaming exercise, which team works to integrate the defensive tactics and controls from the defending team with the threats and…

In a teaming exercise, the purple team is responsible for integrating the defensive tactics and

controls from the blue team (defensive) with the threats and vulnerabilities found by the red team

(attacking). The purple team’s role is to ensure that the defense mechanisms are effective against the

identified threats and to improve the overall security posture of the organization. They work

collaboratively with both the red and blue teams to provide a comprehensive view of the

organization’s security readiness1.

Reference: The concept of red, blue, and purple teams in cybersecurity is well-documented in

ISACA’s resources. The purple team is described as a group of cybersecurity professionals who play

the roles of both the red team and blue team in an ongoing and integrated manner. Their objective is

to provide reliable cyber assurance by collecting intelligence on tactics, techniques, and procedures

(TTPs) used by adversaries (as a red team) and then analyzing these TTPs to configure, tune, and

improve the incident detection and response capability (as a blue team)1.