Defeating Advanced Adversaries - Purple Team Tactics and Kill Chain Defenses

Course Overview:
This course will provide participants with the strategies and techniques used by Purple Teams to defeat advanced adversaries. Focus will be placed on understanding and defending against sophisticated attacks through proactive Kill Chain defense strategies, combining the skills of both red and blue teams to enhance organizational security.

Target Audience:
- Cybersecurity Analysts
- Security Engineers
- Incident Response Teams
- IT Security Professionals
- Risk Managers
- Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)

Course Objectives:
- Understand the concept of Purple Teaming and how it integrates red and blue team strategies for effective defense.
- Learn how to analyze and defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs) using real-world attack scenarios.
- Apply Kill Chain methodologies to identify, prevent, and mitigate cyber attacks.
- Develop and implement countermeasures to detect and defeat adversaries at each stage of the attack chain.
- Enhance skills in proactive defense by simulating realistic attack scenarios and responses.

Course Outline:
- Introduction to Purple Teaming: Red and Blue Team Synergy
- Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain: Stages of an Attack
- Identifying and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in the Kill Chain
- Advanced Adversary Tactics: Techniques, Tools, and Procedures (TTPs)
- Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
- Countermeasures and Defenses for Each Kill Chain Stage
- Incident Response and Recovery in the Context of Kill Chain Defense
- Real-World Case Studies: Purple Team in Action
- Hands-On Exercises and Simulated Attacks/Defenses