Purple Team: when AI orchestrates defense
In April 2026, ITrust presented the findings of a research project conducted by its SOC team at the InCyber Forum (FIC). Thomas Bourthoumieux, SOC Director, and Félix Billières, Tier 3 SOC Analyst, shared the work carried out by the Tier 3 team and ITrust's broader Blue Team: embedding recent advancements in artificial intelligence into the SOC operational workflow. This initiative directly addresses a widely acknowledged industry challenge: traditional purple team cycles are too slow, fragmented, and poorly reproducible to keep pace with threat actors. The goal was to empower a [...]








