Applied Purple Teaming: Advanced Cyber Defense Training

Description

Applied Purple Teaming: Advanced Cyber Defense Training

Develop expert-level skills in proactive cybersecurity with Advanced Cyber Defense Training through Applied Purple Teaming. This course is designed to bridge the gap between traditional red and blue team approaches, empowering security professionals to effectively plan, simulate, and respond to cyber threats. Purple teaming merges offensive and defensive strategies, offering a comprehensive perspective on threat detection, response techniques, and resilience-building within a security ecosystem.

Course Overview

This advanced course covers critical aspects of cyber defense, including attack simulation, detection tuning, threat intelligence, and adversary emulation. Through interactive labs and real-world scenarios, participants will learn how to apply purple teaming concepts to optimize both offensive and defensive capabilities, allowing organizations to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. By completing this training, you’ll be equipped to lead and integrate cross-functional security teams, enhancing organizational security posture with a deep, applied understanding of cyber defense strategies.

What You’ll Learn

• Conduct effective red and blue team exercises for comprehensive security validation
• Utilize threat intelligence to emulate real-world attack scenarios
• Implement detection and response strategies aligned with industry best practices
• Strengthen network defense with customized mitigation techniques
• Enhance situational awareness through advanced monitoring and threat hunting

Requirements

This course is intended for experienced IT and cybersecurity professionals. A background in network security, threat hunting, or penetration testing is recommended to fully engage with course content.

Course  Description

Applied Purple Teaming: Advanced Cyber Defense Training provides an in-depth approach to purple teaming concepts, tactics, and strategies. This guide is designed to help security teams break down silos between offense and defense, applying a cooperative framework to enhance overall defense readiness. With practical examples, tools, and step-by-step exercises, this book offers actionable insights to improve security response times and fortify defenses against sophisticated cyber attacks. From threat emulation to fine-tuning detection mechanisms, it prepares you to build robust, adaptive security programs within any organization.

What is a purple team lab?

This is a heavily audited and well-monitored detection environment. This allows the maintainer to test tools, catch executions, and hone their detection skills against an Elastic install.

Extensive instructions and optional lab prerequisites can be found here: https://github.com/DefensiveOrigins/APT06202001

Build your own Purple Team lab in 4 hours (or less!)

•  Implement Sysmon with the modular configuration
•  Configure and launch meaningful audit policies
•  Deploy the WEF / WEC model of event collection
•  Install WinLogBeat to push logs to….
•  The Hunting ELK (HELK) Docker-based Elastic install
•  Catch some basic command line stuff

Explore These Valuable Resources

• MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• SANS Institute Security Training
• Cybrary Purple Teaming Course

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