Purple Teaming Services in Australia

Staying ahead requires more than awareness. It demands continuous validation, adaptation, and improvement. Our Purple Team has been refining and expanding our assessment offerings to meet the evolving needs of our clients and the broader security community.

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What is Purple Teaming?

Purple teaming is a collaborative security exercise in which offensive security consultants work alongside your defensive or Blue Team. Together, they execute realistic attack scenarios to test and improve your organisation’s ability to detect and respond to cyber threats.

Our consultants use the telemetry generated during these scenarios to evaluate logging and detection coverage across your defensive tooling, including your EDR, SIEM and IDPS. This reveals whether important attack activity is visible and whether your existing alerts work as intended.

Depending on your needs, an engagement can validate logging, tune existing detections, create custom detection logic, emulate relevant threat actors or strengthen your analysts’ investigative skills. The result is actionable guidance and a practical path towards stronger detection and response capabilities.

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Key Benefits of Purple Teaming

Purple teaming turns realistic attack activity into measurable defensive improvements. By working alongside your security team, we help validate your current capabilities, close coverage gaps and build stronger detection and response practices.

Validate Your Defensive Visibility

Real-world attack scenarios test whether the telemetry needed to detect threats is actually available across your defensive tooling, including your EDR, SIEM and IDPS.

Improve Detection Fidelity

We validate that existing detections fire as intended, assess their logic for accuracy and resilience, and identify opportunities to improve coverage.

Build Implementation-Ready Detections

Purple team engagements can produce custom, high-fidelity detection logic written directly within your SIEM or EDR platform and ready to implement by the end of the assessment.

Strengthen Your Team’s Skills

Live demonstrations and guided exercises give your security team practical experience investigating attack activity while enabling direct knowledge transfer from our consultants.

How Purple Teaming Works

Our consultants work side-by-side with your Blue Team to test and improve your defensive capabilities using realistic attack activity.

During an engagement, we:

Identify your primary security objectives, high-priority systems and business-critical data.
Execute real-world attack scenarios within your environment.
Use the generated telemetry to evaluate logging and detection coverage across your EDR, SIEM and IDPS.
Validate that detections fire as intended and identify opportunities to improve their accuracy and resilience.
Provide actionable, prioritised guidance to close coverage gaps and strengthen your security posture.

Depending on your objectives, the engagement may also include custom detection engineering, threat actor emulation or guided response training. Engagements can be delivered in a concentrated bootcamp-style format or through a more flexible ad-hoc model.

Who are the purple team testers in Australia?

Gridware is where some of Australia’s best purple team testers choose to work. We are certified as a Great Place to Work and named in the Best Workplaces in Technology list for 2024. We were also a finalist for Cyber Security Consulting Company of the Year at the Australian Cyber Security Awards.

Skilled testers want to work somewhere that takes the craft seriously. That is who runs your engagement.

Our Team Certifications

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Purple Team Engagements

Whether it’s the rapid advancement of AI, newly discovered attack techniques and exploits, or the constant evolution of defensive tools and strategies, one thing is clear: the cybersecurity landscape never stands still.

Explore our Purple Team engagement types to identify which assessment meets your security team where they are today and determine the best path forward for measurable improvement.

Live Attack Validation

The Live Attack Validation is an active testing engagement in which our consultants execute a pre-designed playbook of real-world attack scenarios within your environment. Working side-byside with your Blue Team, we leverage the telemetry generated during execution to test, validate, and evaluate logging coverage across your defensive tooling, including your EDR, SIEM, and IDPS.

This engagement is available in two models: a bootcamp-style format conducted over a concentrated, scheduled engagement window, and an ad-hoc model that provides the same depth of testing with greater scheduling flexibility.

Detection Review & Tuning

The Detection Review & Tuning engagement is an active testing assessment that targets a specific, client-defined list of existing detections.

In this ad-hoc engagement, our consultants will trigger and validate that each detection fires as intended, assess the underlying logic for accuracy and resilience, and provide actionable recommendations to improve detection fidelity or close identified coverage gaps with new detection logic.

Security Baseline & SIEM Review

The Security Baseline & SIEM Review is a structured assessment designed to quantify the effectiveness of your organisation’s defensive controls from the ground up.

The engagement begins with a Defense & Alerting Interview, where our consultants collaborate with your team to identify your primary security objectives, high-priority systems, and business-critical data. From there, a SIEM Configuration Review is performed to evaluate whether your SIEM has sufficient visibility into environmental logging. The goal is to reduce unnecessary event noise and maximise the usability and effectiveness of your SIEM as a detection platform.

Custom Detection Engineering

The Custom Detection Engineering engagement combines live attack scenario execution with the creation of custom, high-fidelity detections written directly within your SIEM or EDR platform. We also evaluate the security posture surrounding each scenario and deliver tangible, prioritised guidance for improvement.

This engagement is available in two models: a bootcamp-style format or an ad-hoc model.

To tailor the engagement to your specific needs, we offer several variants:

Standard Playbook
Our foundational assessment. This follows a structured set of attack phases and is the ideal starting point for teams new to purple team engagements or new to working with us.

MITRE ATT&CK Targeted
Already have a handle on your environment? If you’ve identified specific gaps tied to a particular phase of the MITRE ATT&CK framework (e.g., Lateral Movement, Discovery, Privilege Escalation), this variant provides a focused, deepdive evaluation of that problem area.

Cloud Platform
Need detection engineering for AWS, Azure, GCP, or other cloud environments? This variant is purpose-built for cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure.

Post-Assessment Remediation
Have findings from a recent penetration test or Red Team engagement? This variant walks through the key techniques and issues from that report, leveraging the work already done to close detection and prevention gaps identified during the prior assessment.

Quick-Start
Want the value of a Custom Detection Engineering engagement but working within a tighter timeline or budget? This reduced-scope variant is an excellent choice for organisations looking to experience this assessment type before committing to a full engagement, or for those who need results on an accelerated schedule.

Ransomware Readiness
A focused, shorter-duration assessment centered on ransomware-specific techniques. This variant identifies and closes detection gaps across common ransomware tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Threat Actor Emulation

The Threat Actor Emulation is an advanced engagement in which our consultants design a custom emulation plan modeled after a specific, real-world threat group relevant to your organisation or industry. The full attack sequence is then executed within your environment, and we work alongside your team to ensure that proper detection and response capabilities exist at every stage of the simulated intrusion chain.

Deception Engineering

The Deception Engineering engagement is an advanced assessment for organisations looking to design, implement, and operationalise deception technologies and their accompanying detections within their environment. Clients can choose from a library of pre-built deception templates mapped to common technology stacks, or work directly with our consultants to design custom deceptions tailored to a specific platform, application, or environment of their choosing.

Guided SOC Response Training

The Guided SOC Response Training is a hybrid, interactive exercise that combines tabletop discussion with practical, hands-on investigation for your defensive team. During this engagement, a series of attack sequences are executed live in your environment. Guided exercises then walk your SOC analysts through the investigative logic, methodology, and resolution for each scenario, with a live attack demonstration followed by a collaborative investigative discussion after each exercise.

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Your Purple Team Roadmap

How to Choose the Right Engagement

Now that you have a clear picture of each engagement type, let’s talk about how to select the Purple Team assessment that will deliver the most value for your security team.

Getting Started

For organisations that are early in their purple team journey, or that would benefit from a clearer understanding of their environment, logging posture, and existing detection capabilities, we recommend beginning with a Security Baseline & SIEM Review or a Live Attack Validation.

A Security Baseline & SIEM Review will help you identify critical assets and existing technologies through a collaborative, inquiry-driven process, and then evaluate your SIEM configuration to provide clear recommendations on logging structure and how to maximise the return on your SIEM investment.

A Live Attack Validation will then put that logging to the test with real-world attack scenarios, confirming whether the telemetry you need to detect threats is actually in place.

Building on Your Foundation

For organisations that already have a solid understanding of their defensive tooling and logging infrastructure, we recommend one or more of the following three engagement types.

If your goal is to build new detections, our Custom Detection Engineering engagement is the ideal choice. It delivers live attack demonstrations, direct knowledge transfer from our consultants to your security team, and results in custom detection logic that is implementationready by the end of the assessment.

If your goal is to improve existing detections, our Detection Review & Tuning engagement will validate your current detection rules, recommend improvements to logic, and identify any gaps in coverage.

If your goal is to sharpen your team’s investigative skills, our Guided SOC Response Training provides a hands-on, scenario-driven learning experience for your analysts.

For Mature Security Teams For organisations with established security programs looking to push their capabilities further, we recommend exploring our Threat Actor Emulation or Deception Engineering engagements. Both assessments are designed to elevate your defenses beyond standard and intermediate-level testing into the domain of advanced, proactive security operations.

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Your Roadmap at a Glance

Compare our Purple Team engagements across three functional categories: detection engineering, active testing and advanced security operations, to find the assessment that best matches your team’s current capabilities and objectives.

Engagement	Detection Engineering	Active Testing	Advanced
Live Attack Validation		✓
Detection Review & Tuning	✓	✓
Security Baseline & SIEM Review		✓
Custom Detection Engineering	✓	✓
Threat Actor Emulation	✓	✓	✓
Deception Engineering	✓		✓
Guided SOC Response Training			✓

In addition to the engagement types outlined above, we're always happy to have a conversation about your organisation's unique security posture. If nothing above is quite the right fit, let us know. We also offer custom-tailored engagements designed around your team's specific objectives and constraints.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Red Teaming

What is purple teaming in cyber security?

How is purple teaming different from red teaming?

Red teaming tests how well your organisation can withstand a realistic attack, often with limited knowledge or involvement from the defensive team. Purple teaming is more collaborative: offensive and defensive specialists work together to examine attack activity, validate visibility and improve detection and response capabilities.

How is purple teaming different from penetration testing?

Penetration testing identifies technical vulnerabilities within a defined system and testing window. Purple teaming is broader and focuses on how effectively your security tooling and team can detect, investigate and respond to realistic attack activity.

What happens during a Gridware Purple Team engagement?

Gridware’s consultants identify your security objectives and execute realistic attack scenarios within your environment. We use the generated telemetry to evaluate logging and detection coverage across your EDR, SIEM and IDPS, validate that detections work as intended, and provide prioritised guidance for improvement.

Which Purple Team engagement is right for our organisation?

Organisations beginning their purple team journey may benefit from a Security Baseline & SIEM Review or Live Attack Validation. Teams building or refining capabilities can consider Custom Detection Engineering, Detection Review & Tuning or Guided SOC Response Training, while mature security programs may benefit from Threat Actor Emulation or Deception Engineering.

What outcomes does a Purple Team engagement provide?

Depending on the engagement, outcomes may include validated logging coverage, improved detection logic, custom implementation-ready detections, identified coverage gaps and prioritised recommendations. Collaborative exercises can also provide direct knowledge transfer and strengthen your analysts’ investigative skills.

Can purple teaming support APRA CPS 234 or Essential Eight requirements?

Purple teaming supports APRA CPS 234 assurance activities and Essential Eight assessments by validating how effectively your controls detect and respond to realistic attack activity.

How long does purple teaming take and how much does it cost in Australia?

Timing and cost depend on your objectives, environment, selected engagement type and the number of scenarios or detections being assessed. Some Gridware Purple Team services are available as concentrated bootcamp-style engagements or through a more flexible ad-hoc model. Contact Gridware for a scope and quote tailored to your organisation.

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