Where Offense Meets Defense

DEF CON Purple Team Village
Break. Detect. Iterate. Together.

**Las Vegas, NV

DEF CON**

Stop fighting in silos. The Purple Team Village bridges the gap between offensive exploitation and defensive resilience. Whether you’re an attacker looking to test if your tradecraft actually gets caught, or a defender building detection engineering pipelines, this is your sandbox.

About The Village

Collaborative Security in Action

Traditional cybersecurity treats Red and Blue like adversaries. Purple teaming treats them like force multipliers. At the Purple Team Village, we bring together threat hunters, malware authors, SOC analysts, and penetration testers to align tradecraft with detection.

Real-Time Feedback Loops: Learn how to weaponize attack telemetry to write better Sigma and YARA rules.
Emulation over Simulation: Execute real adversary behaviors and analyze the telemetry live.
Community-Driven: Built by practitioners, for practitioners. No pitch decks, no vendor fluff—just raw tradecraft.

What To Expect

Village Tracks & Features

1. Hands-On CTF Labs

Test your skills in our adversary emulation environments. Attack a target, observe the logs, and tweak the defenses in real time.

2. Technical Workshops

Deep dives into MITRE ATT&CK mapping, C2 framework telemetry, detection engineering, and automation.

3. Lightning Talks & Presentations

Hear from industry experts on modern threat landscapes, novel bypasses, and defensive visibility gaps.

4. Tool Shed & Demos

Check out open-source purple teaming tools, framework integrations, and telemetry validation suites built by the community.