Security teams that have never stress-tested their detection and response systems under realistic attack conditions face a particular kind of risk: they don't know what they've missed. Group-IB is now offering a structured way to find out, with a Purple Teaming service that places offensive and defensive specialists in simultaneous operation against scenarios drawn from more than 1,600 cybercrime investigations.
The service, announced on 30 June, runs for one to eight weeks on-site, remotely, or in a hybrid format. Group-IB's red team executes adversary scenarios mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework while the client's own defenders monitor and respond in real time, adjusting detection rules and response playbooks as the engagement unfolds. Scenarios can include ransomware simulations, Active Directory attacks, supply chain compromise, and data exfiltration, conducted without business disruption.
The intelligence layer is central to the offering. Scenarios are not drawn from generic frameworks but from the specific tactics, techniques, and procedures of threat actors the company has tracked and attributed across its investigation archive since 2003. The gap between enterprise security investment and operational readiness has become a recognised problem in the industry; many organisations that have deployed significant tooling have never tested whether that tooling performs when an actual attack is under way.
"Organisations today face a fundamental accountability question: they have invested heavily in detection and response capabilities, but many have never tested whether those capabilities actually work when it matters," said Dmitry Volkov, CEO of Group-IB. "Purple Teaming answers that question honestly. It is not a checkbox exercise; it is a structured, intelligence-driven process that reveals exactly where detection fails, where response breaks down, and where training has not kept pace with the threat. The goal is not to expose weakness for its own sake but to convert that knowledge into a measurable improvement in resilience."
Konstantin Damotsev, Global Head of Group-IB's Red Teaming Practice, described the intelligence-led approach: "The most important thing we bring to a Purple Teaming engagement is not just about our offensive toolkit, but also the intelligence behind every scenario we run. When we simulate a ransomware intrusion or an Active Directory attack, we are not working from generic playbooks. We are replicating the specific behaviour of threat actors Group-IB has tracked, investigated, and attributed across thousands of real incidents. That specificity is what makes the exercise genuinely useful: defenders learn to detect the adversaries that are actually targeting them, not a theoretical composite. The difference shows immediately when a detection rule catches something it has never been tested against before."
The service joins Group-IB's existing portfolio of Threat Intelligence, Managed Extended Detection and Response, and Incident Response, and is available through the company's Digital Crime Resistance Centers across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the Americas, and Central Asia.
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