Purple Teaming Capabilities (OWASP Taxonomy)

What is Purple Teaming Capabilities (OWASP Taxonomy)?

Purple teaming closes the gap between offense and defense. You import red scenarios, map them to blue controls, run combined exercises, and correlate alerts so gaps show up as coverage metrics - not a spreadsheet of findings nobody acts on.

What this looks like in production

Red without purple means vulnerabilities sit in Jira. Blue without purple means controls never get tested against the attacks they claim to stop. Most mature AI security programs need this loop in Test and again in Operate.

What teams usually do about it

• Map each adversarial scenario to a defensive control and measure coverage.
• Use one-click purple runs where possible; feed results back into guardrail tuning.
• Correlate red and blue telemetry instead of running teams in silos.

Further reading on Giskard

• Secure AI agents with continuous LLM red teaming
• GOAT: multi-turn automated red teaming
• Crescendo: multi-turn jailbreaking that bypasses AI security

Official OWASP reference