Are you Purple Teaming your IT Support and Security

Cybercriminal activities is a 9.5 Trillion dollar business. To survive your business needs more than traditional IT support. Learn what a Purple team is and how Underdog Cyber Defense masterfully combines traditional IT support with our purple team tactics to deliver the most comprehensive solution for any organization.

What is a Red Team?

In cybersecurity, different “Teams” handle various aspects of security. The most common teams are The Blue and Red Teams.

A Red team is responsible for Offensive security measures. Its primary role is to simulate real-world cyber attacks on an organization’s systems, networks, and applications to identify vulnerabilities and test the effectiveness of the existing defenses. The goal is to think and act like an adversary to find and exploit weaknesses before actual attackers can do so.

What is a Blue Team?

A Blue Team is defensive. Its primary role is to protect an organization’s systems, networks, and data from cyber threats. Duties include:

• Monitoring for suspicious activity.
• Responding to incidents.
• Managing vulnerabilities.
• Ensuring the security of information through various protective measures.

The Blue Team works to maintain and enhance the security infrastructure, detect potential threats, and mitigate the impact of security incidents.

What is a Purple Team?

Purple Team is both offensive and defensive. It integrates Red Teams (offensive) and Blue Teams (defensive) functions to enhance an organization’s cybersecurity posture. The Purple Team facilitates collaboration, ensuring that the insights and techniques from offensive activities (like penetration testing and threat simulations) are used effectively to improve defensive strategies (such as monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management). This holistic approach aims to create a more robust and adaptive security environment by leveraging the strengths of both offensive and defensive efforts.

Combining Purple Team Disciplines and Traditional IT Support for a Winning Solution

Small businesses today need more than just traditional IT support.

Traditional IT Support focuses on maintaining and supporting current IT infrastructure but does not focus on proactive cybersecurity. Very few businesses can afford to outsource both a traditional IT support company and a cybersecurity company.

In addition, responsibility lines become blurred, and there is a lot of finger-pointing.

Underdog Cyber Defense adopts a purple team approach and combines that with Traditional IT Support to provide our clients with a comprehensive security and support solution.