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Purple teaming has become a superficial checkbox exercise that creates false confidence. Two mature organizations with strong defenses were deeply compromised during co-designed engagements, revealing that detection without timely action is meaningless. Standard purple team models fail due to time pressure, narrow scopes, and transactional approaches. Real resilience requires repetition, rehearsal, co-ownership, full visibility into controls, and focus on post-detection response rather than just finding vulnerabilities. AI-enhanced SOCs made no difference without proper rehearsal and judgment.

The hard part of purple teaming starts after detection