A purple team assessment is a collaborative exercise where offensive (red) and defensive (blue) teams work side by side to execute real adversary techniques, validate which ones your detection and response controls catch, and engineer the missing coverage on the spot. CyberXplore runs senior-led, manual purple team engagements that map every emulated technique to MITRE ATT&CK, measure detection and alerting before and after tuning, and hand your SOC production-ready detection logic - so you leave with quantified, repeatable improvement rather than a one-time pass/fail.
MITRE ATT&CKNISTPTESMITRE D3FEND
Why CyberXplore
Senior-only testers (OSCP, CRTP, CREST)
ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 certified
Free retest + attestation letter
Tailored scope and quote in 24 hours
Why it matters
Most organizations can't say which ATT&CK techniques they actually detect - a purple team replaces assumptions with evidence by emulating attacks and watching whether your SIEM, EDR, and SOC respond.
Buying more security tooling rarely closes gaps; misconfigured rules, noisy alerts, and missing log sources do. Purple teaming finds and fixes those blind spots while attacker and defender are in the same room.
Collaborative detection engineering compresses the feedback loop from months to hours: a technique that goes undetected is tuned, re-run, and confirmed within the same session.
Boards and regulators increasingly want measurable resilience - a before/after detection rate against a known set of techniques is far more defensible than a vague 'we passed the test'.
Aligned with industry standards: MITRE ATT&CK · NIST · PTES · MITRE D3FEND
Our methodology
01
Objectives & Threat Modeling
We agree on goals, in-scope systems, and the threat actors most relevant to your business, then select ATT&CK techniques and tactics to emulate based on your industry and crown-jewel assets.
02
Baseline Detection Mapping
Before tuning, we execute the chosen techniques and record what your existing controls catch - building an ATT&CK coverage heatmap of detected, partially detected, and missed behaviors.
03
Collaborative Emulation
Red and blue teams operate together in real time: our testers run each technique (credential access, lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration) while your defenders watch telemetry, alerts, and SOC workflows live.
04
Detection Engineering & Alert Tuning
For every gap, we work with your team to write or refine detection logic - SIEM correlation rules, EDR queries, and analytics - and reduce false positives so high-value alerts aren't lost in noise.
05
Re-Test & Measure Improvement
We re-run the same techniques against the newly engineered detections to confirm they fire correctly, then quantify the before/after improvement in detection and response coverage.
06
Reporting & Knowledge Transfer
You receive an ATT&CK-mapped report, the detection content we built, and a prioritized roadmap - plus a live debrief so your SOC retains the methodology and can repeat it.
What we test
MITRE ATT&CK technique emulation across the full kill chain
Baseline and post-tuning detection coverage mapping (heatmap)
SIEM correlation rule creation, review, and tuning
EDR/XDR detection and response validation
Log source and telemetry gap analysis
Alert triage workflow and SOC playbook validation
Detection engineering for evasion and living-off-the-land techniques
Production-ready detection content (Sigma/KQL/SPL) built during the engagement
Per-technique findings with telemetry evidence, gaps, and tuning notes
Prioritized detection-engineering roadmap for remaining gaps
Executive summary translating results into resilience metrics for leadership
Live debrief and knowledge-transfer session with your SOC and detection teams
Sample deliverable
What you'll see in your report
Every engagement ends with a clear, prioritized report: severity-rated findings with CVSS scores, affected assets, and remediation status - plus a free retest. The figures below are illustrative.
Findings by severity
12 total
Critical
2
High
6
Medium
3
Low
1
Critical · CVSS 9.6CX-1220
Full domain compromise (Domain Admin obtained)
MITRE T1003CORP domainOpen
Critical · CVSS 9.0CX-1214
EDR bypass - payload executed, no alert raised
MITRE T1562ws-022.corp.localOpen
Illustrative red team assessment sample - anonymized to example.com.
High · CVSS 8.0CX-1202
Spear-phishing → initial access (38% click rate)
MITRE T156624 of 63 employeesOpen
Want the full anonymized sample report? We'll include it with your quote.
“As an early-stage team we needed real depth, not a checkbox scan. They hardened our LLM product and walked us through every fix.”
Hardened in 30 days
FC
Founder & CTO
Early-stage AI startup · Seed · LLM product
AI / ML
Certifications held by our testers
OSCP
CRTP
CREST
CEH
eWPTX
ISO 27001
ISO 9001
Frequently asked questions
A red team operates covertly to test whether they can reach an objective without being caught. A purple team is collaborative and transparent: red and blue work together so that every technique is observed, gaps are tuned immediately, and the focus is measurable detection improvement rather than a single stealthy win.
