Purple Team Assessment

Strengthen your defences by combining attack simulation with your security team in a collaborative exercise that reveals gaps and improves detection and response.

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Challenges we solve

Purple Team Assessments address the real-world security challenges that keep organisations exposed to sophisticated threats.

Limited visibility into detection gaps

Your security monitoring tools may miss critical attack techniques because they have never been tested against realistic adversary behaviour in a controlled environment.

Red and Blue Teams working in silos

Without structured collaboration, offensive and defensive teams operate independently, missing the opportunity to share knowledge that makes both sides more effective.

Uncertain incident response readiness

You need to know whether your team can detect, triage and respond to an active attack before a real threat actor puts them to the test.

Meeting compliance and assurance requirements

Regulators and auditors increasingly expect organisations to demonstrate not just that controls exist, but that they work under realistic attack conditions.

What is a Purple Team Assessment?

A Purple Team Assessment is a collaborative security exercise that brings together ethical hackers (Red Team) and your internal defenders (Blue Team) in a structured, goal-driven engagement. Rather than testing in isolation, both teams work side-by-side to simulate real-world attack scenarios, observe how defences respond, and identify concrete improvements.

Claranet's Purple Team service is delivered by experienced Cyber Security consultants who design bespoke attack scenarios based on your threat landscape. The engagement covers your entire organisation, internal assets, perimeter and cloud environments, giving you a realistic picture of your detection and response capability.

Each engagement is scoped through detailed discussions to ensure the exercise targets the areas that matter most. Following delivery, you receive a comprehensive report including an attack narrative, gap analysis of detection coverage, and prioritised recommendations to strengthen your security posture.

Key benefits

Real-world attack scenarios tailored to your threat profile
Collaborative Red and Blue Team knowledge transfer
Clear gap analysis showing what was detected, blocked or missed
Actionable recommendations to improve detection and response
Rigorous quality assurance on all deliverables
Supports compliance with regulatory and audit requirements

Why Claranet Cyber Security?

Proven expertise, at scale.

10,000 Penetration test days delivered annually

20+ Years of cyber security expertise

CHECK NCSC CHECK approved provider

CREST CREST accredited company

Technical capabilities

Detailed, hands-on security testing backed by proven methodology and deep expertise.

Bespoke attack simulation

Attack scenarios are designed around your specific threat landscape, covering infrastructure, applications, cloud environments and social engineering vectors as agreed during scoping.

Blue Team collaboration

Your defensive team observes and participates in live attack delivery. Previews, reviews and tabletop discussions are built into the engagement to maximise knowledge transfer.

Detection gap analysis

Every attack technique is logged against your detection capability, producing a clear matrix of what was detected, what was blocked and what went unnoticed.

Comprehensive reporting

Reports include an executive summary, full attack narrative, technical analysis, timestamped execution log, and prioritised remediation recommendations, all quality assured by senior consultants.

Proven methodology

Engagements follow Claranet's established Purple Team methodology, tailored to your objectives. Testing covers the full attack lifecycle from reconnaissance through to post-exploitation.

Secure data handling

All sensitive data encountered during testing is handled in accordance with strict security policies. Tester machines are encrypted and regularly scrubbed, and PII exposure is minimised throughout.