Purple Team Engagements (PTEs) are a powerful way to validate detections, improve response workflows, and align offensive and defensive teams, but their true value becomes clear through repeated, real-world execution. This talk shares lessons learned from two years of conducting Purple Team Engagements across diverse organizations, highlighting the trends consistently observed in the field, including common detection gaps, visibility issues, process breakdowns, and unexpected findings.
Drawing from real customer engagements, we explore both the short-term and long-term benefits of purple teaming and how organizations translated findings into meaningful security improvements. Through practical case studies, attendees will see examples where PTE outcomes drove detection enhancements, architectural and logging changes, and measurable reductions in risk, including instances where engagement-driven improvements helped identify significant gaps or prevent real-world incidents. This session provides a candid, experience-driven look at what purple teaming delivers in practice and how to maximize its impact over time. Join us as we recount our time in the Trenches helping organizations win their war against threats.