Purple Team Engagements
Red and blue working together to measurably improve detection
What this engagement covers
The service
Collaborative engagements where our offensive team executes realistic adversary behavior while your defensive team observes, tunes, and validates detections in real time.
What we test
Controlled execution of MITRE ATT&CK techniques across your environment, paired with real-time detection validation and tuning by your SOC or our MDR analysts.
Scoping & Assessment Depth
Black Box Assessment
Zero-KnowledgeSimulates an external adversary targeting Purple Team Engagements with no internal credentials, source code, or architecture documentation. Assesses perimeter exposure, unauthenticated attack paths, and edge resilience.
Gray Box Assessment (Recommended)
CredentialedSimulates an authenticated user, tenant, or insider threat within Purple Team Engagements. We evaluate role segregation, authorization boundaries, privilege escalation, and business logic flaws across user tiers.
White Box / Source-Assisted
Full-KnowledgeConducted with direct access to architecture schematics, configuration files, and API/code documentation. Eliminates blind spots and provides exhaustive coverage of security mechanisms governing Purple Team Engagements.
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Vectors
ATT&CK tactics with zero detection coverage
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover ATT&CK tactics with zero detection coverage across your Purple Team Engagements environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Alerts firing too late in the kill chain
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Alerts firing too late in the kill chain across your Purple Team Engagements environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
High false-positive detections being ignored
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover High false-positive detections being ignored across your Purple Team Engagements environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Missing telemetry blocking detection
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Missing telemetry blocking detection across your Purple Team Engagements environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Playbook gaps for confirmed detections
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Playbook gaps for confirmed detections across your Purple Team Engagements environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
How we run it
Scoped ATT&CK technique library, paired execution sessions, live detection scoring, and a delivery package including signed runbooks, test artifacts, and a detection coverage report.
Scoping and technique selection
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting scoping and technique selection across your purple team engagements deployment.
Environment readiness check
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting environment readiness check across your purple team engagements deployment.
Paired live execution sessions
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting paired live execution sessions across your purple team engagements deployment.
Real-time detection validation
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting real-time detection validation across your purple team engagements deployment.
Tuning iteration
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting tuning iteration across your purple team engagements deployment.
Coverage report and re-test
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting coverage report and re-test across your purple team engagements deployment.
What you receive
Findings land in your tracker as you go, not only in a PDF at the end. Retest is in scope, not a change order.
- ATT&CK-mapped technique catalog
- Live execution sessions
- Per-technique detection scoring
- Tuned detections deployed by end of engagement
- Coverage heatmap report
- Re-test validation pass
What we usually find
The issues this engagement surfaces most often. Yours will differ, but this is the shape of it.
Who this is for
Auditor-Ready Compliance Crosswalk
| Framework | Control Section | Testing Evidence & Report Deliverable |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | CC4.1, CC7.1, CC7.2 | Technical testing evidence validating system boundaries, access restrictions, and vulnerability identification controls. |
| NIST Cybersecurity Framework | PR.AC, DE.CM, RS.AN | Technical testing verifying access controls, anomaly detection efficacy, and incident response mitigation capabilities. |
| PCI DSS v4.0 | Requirement 11.4 & 11.4.3 | Adversary-driven external and internal penetration testing with application-layer validation and vulnerability remediation verification. |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | Control A.8.8 & A.8.20 | Management of technical vulnerabilities and network security verification through independent technical assessments. |
Findings are mapped to SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, so the report drops into an audit package rather than needing to be translated first. If you need the readiness work behind one of those, that is a separate engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers on scoping, methodology, compliance validation, and deliverables.
Our Purple Team Engagements service combines deep manual testing with automated verification. We cover: ATT&CK-mapped technique catalog, Live execution sessions, Per-technique detection scoring, Tuned detections deployed by end of engagement, Coverage heatmap report. Every engagement includes reproducible proof-of-concept exploits, developer-ready remediation guidance, and a free retest.
Yes. Findings are directly mapped to SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 control requirements. The resulting report is auditor-ready and formatted for immediate submission to SOC 2 CPAs, PCI QSAs, and enterprise vendor risk assessment teams.
Yes. Every Lorikeet Security engagement includes free retesting within 30 to 60 days to validate that your remediation patches successfully resolve the identified vulnerabilities before your final report is issued.
Typical active testing turnaround is 3-6 weeks, with critical findings reported immediately via your Talon portal so your engineering team can begin remediation without waiting for the final PDF.
Pricing starts from $22,000. We scope the engagement in one call based on your environment's surface area, user roles, and complexity, providing a transparent, fixed-price quote with no hidden change orders.
Scope it in one call
Tell us what is in scope and we come back with a fixed price and a start date. No discovery-call maze, no hourly estimate that moves.
