Purple Team Exercise · Edinburgh
Purple Team Exercise in Edinburgh
Purple team exercises for Edinburgh organisations, where the value comes from the defenders being in the room. Attack techniques are run deliberately and openly while the security team watches what their tooling shows — so each one either produces a detection or reveals precisely where the visibility gap is.
Why this comes up
The problem
The security team has detection rules and no evidence about which techniques they actually catch.
What you get
What we deliver
- Techniques selected against threats relevant to your organisation rather than a generic list
- Each one executed with the defending team observing their own tooling
- Detection outcome recorded per technique — caught, logged only, or invisible
- Rules written or tuned during the exercise where gaps are found
- Improvements verified by repeating the technique rather than assumed
- Results documented so coverage can be tracked over successive exercises
Want this scoped for your business in Edinburgh?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what purple team exercise would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Edinburgh
Scotland
Edinburgh is a financial capital with a strong data science community, and the festival economy creates extreme seasonal load patterns that booking and ticketing systems here have to survive every August.
Financial services and data-led work, plus seasonal systems that have to absorb enormous August load without falling over.
Sectors we work with in Edinburgh
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Tourism
- Higher Education
- Data Science
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- MITRE ATT&CK
- SIEM
- EDR
- Atomic Red Team
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Public sector
- Technology companies
- Critical infrastructure
Why us
Why Edinburgh businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Purple Team Exercise in Edinburgh — common questions
- Why must the defenders participate?
- Because the learning happens in the moment. Watching a technique run and seeing exactly what appears — or does not — in their own tooling teaches the team more than any report, and it lets them write and test a rule while the activity is reproducible.
- How are techniques chosen?
- From what is realistically relevant. Running an exhaustive catalogue produces volume rather than insight, whereas selecting techniques associated with threats to your sector and your technology gives results you can act on within the day.
- What are the three outcomes?
- Detected, logged but not alerted, or entirely invisible. The middle category is the most valuable finding — the evidence exists and nothing draws attention to it, which is a tuning problem rather than a tooling one and usually fixable immediately.
- How does this compare with a red team?
- It is collaborative rather than adversarial and produces improvements directly. A red team measures your response under realistic conditions; a purple team builds the detection capability that response depends on — so the second frequently belongs before the first.
- Do you work with businesses across City of Edinburgh?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh and the surrounding City of Edinburgh area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Edinburgh businesses do you usually work with?
- Financial services and data-led work, plus seasonal systems that have to absorb enormous August load without falling over. Beyond that we work across Financial Services, Technology, Tourism, Higher Education and Data Science.
- Do you cover the areas around Edinburgh?
- Yes — we work throughout Scotland, including Glasgow. Edinburgh is an urban area of roughly 540,000+, and we take on work across the wider City of Edinburgh region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Purple Team Exercise in Edinburgh
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise