Oct 22 Β· Week 4 β€” Detect, Investigate & Respond

🟣 Purple Team

Attackers Think Like Adversaries. Defenders Should Too.

Day 22 Β· Oct 22

πŸ›‘οΈ CyberSecurity Month 2026 Β· WAIG Γ— DefenAI

🟣 Purple Team

Attackers Think Like Adversaries. Defenders Should Too.

Campaign day

22

Purple Team

Week focus

W4

NIST SP 800-61

Action items

2

Org checklist today

  • β—†Adversary emulation
  • β—†Detection tuning
  • β—†Gap closure
  • β—†Metrics
  • β—†WAIG Foundation: Student cyber ranges and challenges.
  • β—†DefenAI Labs: Red team automation and BAS.
  • β—†Suggested comms format today: Infographic.

Learn together, defend together

Schedule one purple exercise

4-part action model

Governance Β· Technology Β· Resilience Β· Incident response

Collaborate red and blue to improve detections and close gaps.

Governance

Define metrics: detect, respond, recover for Purple Team.

Technology

Validate controls with BAS, purple team, forensics tooling.

Resilience

Measure MTTD/MTTR improvements quarterly.

Incident response

Run tabletop + technical drill for Purple Team.

Today's flow

  1. 1

    Understand

    Why Purple Team matters for your organization today.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Map assets, owners, and gaps against today's theme.

  3. 3

    Act

    Joint red/blue retrospective.

  4. 4

    Share

    Publish learning internally and on social β€” #CyberSecurityMonth2026.

Did you know?

  • πŸ’‘Attackers Think Like Adversaries. Defenders Should Too.
  • πŸ’‘Mission: Collaborate red and blue to improve detections and close gaps.
  • πŸ’‘Frameworks to explore: NIST SP 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, SANS IR.

Frameworks & standards

NIST SP 800-61MITRE ATT&CKSANS IR

Organizational checklist (infographic summary)

  • βœ“Joint red/blue retrospective.
  • βœ“Track mean time to detection improvements.
  • βœ“Share today's infographic with one community audience.
  • βœ“Log one improvement in your risk or incident tracker.

Audience awareness infographic

Eight communities Β· one mission

Tap a card for tailored awareness and today's action β€” built for sharing.

Collaborate red and blue to improve detections and close gaps. As an employee, attackers think like adversaries. defenders should too. affects every inbox, device, and customer record you touch.

Share: Employees: Day 22 β€” Purple Team. #CyberSecurityMonth2026 #ResponsibleAI

One-click publish

Share Day 22 externally

LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and X β€” captions tailored for this theme (employees).

Select an audience, then use one-click publish to tailor the share caption for that community.

Mission

Collaborate red and blue to improve detections and close gaps.

Organizational actions

  • βœ“Joint red/blue retrospective.
  • βœ“Track mean time to detection improvements.

Partner angles

WAIG: Student cyber ranges and challenges.

DefenAI Labs: Red team automation and BAS.

Suggested format: Infographic

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