Group-IB, known for its predictive cybersecurity technologies designed to investigate, prevent, and combat digital crime, has introduced its Purple Teaming service. This innovative security validation offering unites offensive and defensive specialists in real time, aiming to evaluate whether an organisation's defence mechanisms, personnel, and procedures can effectively detect and respond to common attack strategies.
The distinguishing feature of Purple Teaming compared to traditional penetration testing is its live, feedback-driven format. Group-IB's red team simulates adversarial scenarios while the client's defenders actively monitor and respond, allowing immediate adjustments to detection rules and response protocols. This continuous improvement loop is integrated within a single engagement.
Predictive cybersecurity technologies
Each Purple Teaming exercise is underpinned by Group-IB's Threat Intelligence and aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. Tailored to the client's unique environment, scenarios may involve ransomware simulations, Active Directory attacks, supply chain compromises, and data exfiltration. These engagements, lasting from one to eight weeks, can take place on-site, remotely, or in hybrid formats, thereby accommodating organisations of varied sizes and structures.
Tailored to the client's unique environment, scenarios may involve ransomware simulations
The service directly addresses the persistent challenge in enterprise security: the discrepancy between investment in security tools and the actual readiness to handle threats. Clients benefit from enhanced detection coverage, refined response procedures, and opportunities for defenders to practice under realistic conditions that mimic real-world threats identified by Group-IB.
Adversary intelligence capabilities
Group-IB's Purple Teaming leverages its extensive adversary intelligence, derived from over 1,600 high-tech cybercrime investigations since 2003. This intelligence ensures scenarios reflect the tactics and procedures of threat actors pertinent to the client's industry and location, rather than using a generic, one-size-fits-all approach.
Dmitry Volkov, CEO of Group-IB, emphasised, "Organisations today face a fundamental accountability question: they have invested heavily in detection and response capabilities, but many have never tested whether those capabilities actually work when it matters. Purple Teaming answers that question honestly. It is not a checkbox exercise; it is a structured, intelligence-driven process that reveals exactly where detection fails, where response breaks down, and where training has not kept pace with the threat. The goal is not to expose weakness for its own sake but to convert that knowledge into a measurable improvement in resilience."
Measurable improvement in resilience
Purple Teaming enhances Group-IB's range of security resilience services
Konstantin Damotsev, Global Head of Group-IB’s Red Teaming Practice, highlighted the specificity of their approach, stating, "The most important thing we bring to a Purple Teaming engagement is not just about our offensive toolkit, but also the intelligence behind every scenario we run. When we simulate a ransomware intrusion or an Active Directory attack, we are not working from generic playbooks."
"We are replicating the specific behaviour of threat actors Group-IB has tracked, investigated, and attributed across thousands of real incidents. That specificity is what makes the exercise genuinely useful: defenders learn to detect the adversaries that are actually targeting them, not a theoretical composite. The difference shows immediately when a detection rule catches something it has never been tested against before."
Purple Teaming enhances Group-IB's range of security resilience services, which include Threat Intelligence, Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Incident Response. This service is accessible globally through Group-IB’s network of Digital Crime Resistance Centers located in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Americas, and Central Asia.
Group-IB, a creator of predictive cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, announces the launch of its Purple Teaming service, a collaborative security validation offering that brings offensive and defensive specialists together in real time to test whether an organisation's defences, people, and processes can effectively detect and respond to today's most prevalent attack techniques.
Unlike traditional penetration testing, which concludes with a report delivered after the fact, Purple Teaming is a live, feedback-driven process. Group-IB's red team executes adversary scenarios while the client's own defenders monitor, respond, and immediately tune their detection rules and response playbooks, creating a continuous improvement loop within a single engagement.
Predictive cybersecurity technologies
Every exercise is grounded in Group-IB's Threat Intelligence and mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. Scenarios are tailored to each client's specific environment and can include ransomware simulations, Active Directory attacks, supply chain compromise, and data exfiltration, all conducted safely, without business disruption. The service is delivered over one to eight weeks and is available on-site, remotely, or in a hybrid format to accommodate organisations of all sizes and operational structures.
By closing the distance between a security team's theoretical capabilities and their demonstrated performance under realistic conditions, Purple Teaming addresses one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise security: the gap between investment in tools and platforms and actual operational readiness. Clients leave each engagement with measurably improved detection coverage, updated response procedures, and defenders who have practiced under pressure against adversary behaviour that mirrors real-world campaigns tracked by Group-IB.
Adversary intelligence capabilities
The service draws directly on Group-IB's adversary intelligence capabilities, which are built on over 1,600 high-tech cybercrime investigations conducted since the company's founding in 2003. This depth of intelligence allows scenarios to reflect the actual techniques, tactics, and procedures of the threat actors most relevant to a client's industry and geography, not generic attack frameworks applied uniformly.
“Organisations today face a fundamental accountability question: they have invested heavily in detection and response capabilities, but many have never tested whether those capabilities actually work when it matters,” said Dmitry Volkov, CEO of Group-IB. “Purple Teaming answers that question honestly. It is not a checkbox exercise; it is a structured, intelligence-driven process that reveals exactly where detection fails, where response breaks down, and where training has not kept pace with the threat. The goal is not to expose weakness for its own sake but to convert that knowledge into a measurable improvement in resilience.”
Measurable improvement in resilience
“The most important thing we bring to a Purple Teaming engagement is not just about our offensive toolkit, but also the intelligence behind every scenario we run. When we simulate a ransomware intrusion or an Active Directory attack, we are not working from generic playbooks,” said Konstantin Damotsev, Global Head of Group-IB’s Red Teaming Practice.
“We are replicating the specific behaviour of threat actors Group-IB has tracked, investigated, and attributed across thousands of real incidents. That specificity is what makes the exercise genuinely useful: defenders learn to detect the adversaries that are actually targeting them, not a theoretical composite. The difference shows immediately when a detection rule catches something it has never been tested against before.”
Security resilience services
Purple Teaming is the latest addition to Group-IB’s portfolio of security resilience services and complements its broader offering across Threat Intelligence, Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Incident Response.
The service is available globally through Group-IB’s network of Digital Crime Resistance Centers across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Americas, and Central Asia.
