Traditional security testing can be a frustrating cycle. The Red Team attacks, the Blue Team defends, and a report lands on a desk weeks later. This old model is slow, siloed, and doesn't show the whole picture.
Purple team cybersecurity changes the game by making security a team sport.
What is Purple Team Cybersecurity?
Imagine your client's network is a castle. The Red Team are the experts trying to find clever ways to sneak past the guards. The Blue Team are the guards on patrol, watching for trouble.
In a normal penetration testing engagement, the attackers find a weakness, but the guards might not know about it until it's too late. A purple team approach gets them talking in real-time. As the Red Team tries a new attack, they immediately tell the Blue Team, "Hey, we just tried this. Did you see it?" This immediate feedback makes the entire defense system smarter and faster.
For MSPs and vCISOs, this is a huge win. You're no longer just dropping off a report full of problems. You're showing your client exactly how their security investments perform against a live attack, connecting technical findings to real business risk. Before diving in, a solid baseline like a What is Vulnerability Assessment is a great first step.
This collaborative approach is also perfect for compliance. Frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS require proof that defenses actually work. A purple team exercise delivers tangible evidence that your client's security is actively tested and improving, turning a basic risk assessment into a dynamic improvement cycle.
How Purple Teaming Boosts Your Security
To understand the value, it helps to see how the teams work together. The old way pits Red vs. Blue, but the purple mindset unites them for a single purpose: making the organization safer. This collaboration directly benefits your clients.
Ultimately, the purple team isn't about one side "winning." It’s about ensuring the entire organization wins by closing security gaps faster and more efficiently than ever before. For an MSP or GRC company, this is a powerful service to offer.
Why Your Pentesting Needs an Upgrade
A standard penetration test is like a building inspection. An inspector checks for cracked windows and hands you a list of problems. It’s useful, but it never tells you if the security guards were paying attention when a window was smashed.
This is the exact problem with most pentesting today. It's great at finding vulnerabilities but often ignores whether the security team or their expensive tools actually noticed the simulated attacks. As an MSP or vCISO, this leaves a huge blind spot for your clients.
Frameworks like PCI DSS and ISO 27001 demand you prove you can detect and respond to threats. A traditional pentest report alone can't provide that assurance. Purple team cybersecurity closes this critical gap by bringing offense and defense together for a live-fire training exercise.
This gives your clients the complete picture: what's vulnerable, how well their defenses respond, and where the blind spots are. By offering affordable, manual pentesting with purple team elements, you solve the industry’s problem of stale, ineffective testing. You can deliver this high-value, white label pentesting service quickly, with our OSCP, CEH, and CREST certified experts providing the technical skill.
Offer White Label Purple Team Services
Building an in-house offensive security team is a huge drain on time and money. The good news? You don’t have to. As a channel-only partner, we give you the expert talent you need on demand.
You can offer advanced security services without the overhead and expand your portfolio to meet your clients' biggest security and compliance pain points. We solve the usual industry problems—inflated prices, long lead times, and bad testing methodology. We offer affordable, manual, fast, and white-labeled solutions.
You can white-label our pentesters, who hold top certifications like OSCP, CEH, and CREST, and present them as an extension of your own team. You maintain full control of the client relationship while we handle the technical heavy lifting.
Our process is simple:
- Define Goals: We start with a scoping call with you and your client to set objectives, like testing defenses for a SOC 2 audit.
- Execute Attacks: Our manual pentesting team runs controlled attack scenarios.
- Monitor & Collaborate: Your client's team watches their systems, and we provide immediate feedback. "We just tried this. Did your EDR light up?"
This collaborative model lets you deliver a premium security service packed with value. As the reseller, you’re the trusted advisor who translates technical findings into business insights. To see how it works, learn about our white label penetration testing.
Connect Purple Teaming to Business Value
Purple team exercises deliver real, measurable business outcomes that executives understand. This is a golden opportunity for an MSP or vCISO to position security as a critical business driver, not just a cost center.
These exercises help justify security budgets with hard data. Instead of just saying, "We need a new tool," you can show executives exactly how a specific attack slipped past their current defenses. It proves the ROI on existing security tools and makes budget conversations much more productive.
The ethical hacking market is growing, with one report projecting the Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Services Market to exceed USD 5.00 billion by 2030. You can find more insights on this market at Mordor Intelligence.
For a reseller, offering white label pentesting with a purple team component is a massive differentiator. You can generate recurring revenue by turning one-off pentests into an ongoing security improvement program. Our affordable, manual pentesting model, led by OSCP and CEH certified experts, lets you offer this premium service without the crippling overhead.
Running Effective Purple Team Exercises
You don’t have to simulate a complex nation-state attack to show value. The most powerful purple team cybersecurity exercises test the threats your clients actually face, like a phishing attack leading to credential theft.
Our Red Team, staffed by OSCP and CEH certified pros, can run this playbook live, turning it into a collaborative training session. We pause at each stage of the attack to ask the Blue Team what their security tools caught—or missed.
We check in at key moments:
- Initial Delivery: Did the email filter stop the phishing lure?
- User Action: If someone clicked, did the web filter block the malicious site?
- Execution: Did the EDR tool flag the malicious script?
- Credential Theft: Did the SIEM alert on an unusual login?
Answering these questions live pinpoints gaps in their defenses and directly supports compliance for frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA.
After phishing, you can move to other threats like ransomware. Understanding attacker methods, like the anatomy of an APT attack, is key to building realistic scenarios. As a reseller, you can offer these engagements as part of your white label pentesting services. You can learn more in our guide to Red Team exercises.
A True White Label Pentesting Partner
Our entire model is built to help our partners win. We are a 100% channel-only company, which means we never compete with our MSP or vCISO clients. We exist to solve the industry's biggest problems: inflated prices, bad testing methodology, and long lead times.
We deliver affordable, manual pentesting from certified pros and get you a final report in under a week. When you white-label our services, you can add penetration testing and purple team cybersecurity to your portfolio seamlessly. You own the client relationship while we handle the technical work behind the scenes.
Our pentesters hold top certs like OSCP, CEH, and CREST, giving your clients access to elite talent under your brand. Check out our pentest partner program to learn how we support you.
The demand for these services is exploding. You can find full research on the purple team service market showing its rapid growth. By partnering with us, you can tap into this market, add a high-margin revenue stream, and become an indispensable strategic partner to your clients.
Your Top Purple Teaming Questions
As an MSP or vCISO, you probably have a few questions about bringing a new service like purple team cybersecurity into your offerings. Let's tackle the most common ones.
A typical purple team workshop can be completed in one to two weeks. Our model is built for speed, and we deliver an actionable report within a week of the engagement ending. This allows you and your client to start fixing issues right away.
Your clients do not need a mature security team for this. These exercises provide huge value for teams at every level. For a newer team, it's an incredible training opportunity. For a mature team, it's a great way to pressure-test their security stack. We tailor every white label pentesting engagement to fit the client's needs.
A vulnerability assessment is an automated scan that finds known weaknesses. A purple team cybersecurity exercise is an active, manual pentesting effort that involves the defensive team to see if they can detect and stop a real attacker. It answers the critical question for compliance auditors: "If we were attacked today, would we know?"
Ready to offer a security service that delivers real, measurable value? We provide affordable, channel-only purple teaming and manual penetration testing delivered by OSCP, CEH, and CREST certified experts. Contact us today to learn more.
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