Your Purple Team Isn't Purple — It's Just Red and Blue in the Same Room

Organizations claiming to have purple teams are often just placing their red and blue teams in the same room without true integration. The article argues that effective purple teaming requires more than physical proximity—it demands genuine collaboration where offensive security testers and defensive teams work together throughout exercises, sharing insights in real-time rather than after the fact. Without this deeper cooperation, companies miss the opportunity to accelerate their security improvement and simply end up with two teams operating independently under one label.