Managed Purple Teaming
Red and Blue. Together.
Guided by SCYTHE Operators.
Managed Purple Teaming puts SCYTHE's adversary emulation experts in the room with both your attack and defense teams — turning exercises into measurable, repeatable security improvement.
Continuous
Quarterly engagement cadence
Both Sides
Red + Blue guided simultaneously
Actionable
Every finding tied to a fix
The Problem
Red and blue teams still operate in silos. Adversaries don't.
Traditional red team engagements end with a report. Blue teams find out what they missed weeks later — with no chance to practice the response in real time. Purple Teaming fixes that. But doing it well requires expertise most organizations don't have in-house. That's what SCYTHE provides.
73%
of red team findings are never formally reviewed by blue team defenders — the insight disappears with the report.
3×
more detection improvements are realized when red and blue teams work the same scenario together versus in isolation.
60%
of organizations lack the internal expertise to properly facilitate purple team exercises without external guidance.
What Is Managed Purple Teaming
A fully facilitated exercise program — SCYTHE runs both sides of the table.
SCYTHE's Managed Purple Teaming service pairs your red and blue teams with SCYTHE operators who design the scenarios, guide the execution, interpret findings in real time, and build the remediation roadmap. Your team learns by doing — against real adversary TTPs, not synthetic noise.
Threat-Informed Scenarios
Every exercise is built around your industry's actual adversaries — not generic test cases designed for a different environment.
Real-Time Facilitation
SCYTHE operators guide both teams through execution — no waiting weeks for a report to understand what happened and why.
Actionable Remediation
Every finding comes with a fix. Not a slide deck — a prioritized remediation plan your team can begin executing immediately.
Continuous Cadence
Quarterly engagements ensure your defenses keep pace with an adversary landscape that never stops changing.
The Process
Four phases. One continuous improvement loop.
Each engagement follows a structured process designed to maximize knowledge transfer and produce security controls that hold up against real attacks.
01
Scoping & Threat Alignment
SCYTHE analysts map your organization's threat landscape, identify priority adversaries, and define exercise objectives aligned to your actual risk profile — not a generic template.
02
Scenario Design & Emulation Build
Custom emulation plans are built inside SCYTHE, reflecting real adversary TTPs tailored to your environment, compliance requirements, and industry sector.
03
Facilitated Exercise Execution
SCYTHE operators run the exercise with both teams simultaneously — guiding attacker actions, coaching defenders, and capturing detection and response data in real time.
04
Findings, Remediation & Replay
Detailed findings are translated into a prioritized remediation roadmap. Gaps are re-tested in a follow-up replay to validate that fixes actually hold under adversary pressure.
Who It's For
Built for security teams that are ready to stop just testing and start improving.
Managed Purple Teaming serves organizations at different stages of security maturity — from teams building their first structured exercise program to CISOs who need to demonstrate measurable improvement to the board.
Mature Security Teams
You have red and blue teams but exercises are episodic and disconnected. MPT creates the structured cadence and expert facilitation that turns isolated testing into a continuous program.
Mid-Market Organizations
You don't have a full internal purple team capability. MPT gives you SCYTHE's operators as a force multiplier — enterprise-grade facilitation without the headcount requirement.
Regulated Industries
Financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure. Exercises are scoped to your compliance requirements — producing audit-ready documentation alongside measurable security outcomes.
CISOs & Security Leaders
You need to show program maturity to the board. MPT produces measurable detection improvement metrics that translate technical results into defensible investment decisions.
Deliverables
What you walk away with after every engagement
Each Managed Purple Teaming engagement produces a concrete set of outputs, not just observations. Every deliverable is designed to be acted on immediately by your team.
Custom Emulation Plans
Built in SCYTHE and mapped to your specific adversaries. Reusable for follow-on testing, replay validation, and future exercises.
Detection Gap Analysis
A MITRE ATT&CK-aligned breakdown of what your defenses caught, missed, and why — mapped per technique and per team.
Prioritized Remediation Roadmap
Ranked by risk and remediation effort. Your team knows exactly what to fix first — and how to validate that the fix worked.
Executive Briefing Package
Board-ready summary of findings, current risk posture, and improvement trajectory. Translates technical outcomes into business language.
Replay Validation Testing
Re-run the same attack after remediation. Confirm that fixes hold under adversary pressure — not just that they were implemented in the SIEM.
Quarterly Progress Baseline
Trend data across engagements. Watch your detection rate improve quarter over quarter with concrete, repeatable metrics.
Free Resource
The CISO's Guide to Purple Teaming
How to build a mature purple team program, measure detection improvement, and communicate security investment value to the board — with practical frameworks your team can use now.
Download the GuideGuide Covers
✓ Building the business case for purple teaming
✓ How to scope and prioritize scenarios
✓ Measuring and reporting detection improvement
✓ Board-ready metrics and risk language
Pair With
Extend the impact of every exercise
Managed Purple Teaming is most powerful when combined with continuous intelligence before the exercise and always-on validation between them.
Empower
Feed your exercises with monthly TTP intelligence so every engagement reflects what adversaries are actively doing — not what they did last quarter.
Learn More →Managed AEV
Continuous adversary emulation validation between engagements — always-on coverage that keeps detection sharp month-to-month without waiting for the next exercise.
Learn More →Tabletop & PTE Exercises
Extend purple team findings into executive and stakeholder tabletop scenarios that build organizational readiness beyond the technical layer.
Learn More →Act Before You Need to React
Your next exercise should produce a better security program. Not just a report.
Talk to a SCYTHE operator. Tell us about your environment and your adversaries. We'll design an engagement that moves the needle.
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