Security advice tied to execution
vCISO work, testing strategy, detection, incident readiness, and remediation planning are treated as connected decisions, not separate reports.
Founder-led means accountable
Andrew J. Scott
Cybersecurity operator, engineering leader, and builder of cyber-native AI decision systems.
A note from Andrew
I built this for the handoff between evidence and action.
"A scanner export, AI launch review, tabletop exercise, or audit request is only useful if someone can turn it into an owner, tradeoff, deadline, and next action. Purple Team is built for that handoff."
Evidence behind the judgment
Operator judgment, not generic advice.
The trust path is the way Purple Team works: define the decision, test the evidence, account for delivery constraints, and bring in the right depth when the mission needs it.
Recommendations built for delivery
Security priorities are framed against ownership, product delivery, launch pressure, implementation constraints, and what teams can actually move.
AI decision work stays practical
Evening Star AI, Purple Radar, and Purple Firefish connect the advisory work to AI research, vulnerability intelligence, and applied security artifacts.
Risk is tested from both sides
The model looks at how exposure could be exploited, how it would be detected, and how the team would coordinate a response.
Judgment for complicated systems
The work is designed for AI workflows, cloud and product environments, and operationally sensitive systems where security has to meet reality.
Founder-led, not bench-first
Andrew stays close to the judgment layer and connects the mission to vetted specialists when deeper execution capacity is needed.
Why Purple Team exists
Why I built Purple Team
Many organizations already have findings, tools, alerts, audit requests, and launch pressure. What they often lack is the next layer: which exposure changes the business conversation, which owner can move it, which deadline matters, and what evidence leadership should see.
Purple Team turns that pile of inputs into usable work product: prioritized backlogs, executive memos, launch-risk summaries, tabletop decision logs, and remediation plans with owners.
How the work is supposed to feel
Operating philosophy
Founder-led consulting should reduce the translation burden. The useful work is plainspoken, evidence-based, and specific enough for the team to carry forward.
- Mission before tools
- Evidence before opinion
- Decisions before dashboards
- Follow-through before optics
- Human accountability in AI-assisted systems
Working style
How I work with teams
The first job is to understand the business situation before prescribing security work.
- I ask what event triggered the conversation.
- I group findings by owner, exposure, and business workflow.
- I write memos, maps, and action lists people can use.
- I work with your team, not around it.
- I tell you when something is uncertain.
Where I help
Security program maturity/vCISO
Operating model, governance rhythm, metrics, ownership, and roadmap decisions.
Offensive security and attack-surface decisions
Testing strategy, attack-path review, exploitability context, and remediation priority.
SOC, detection, and incident readiness
Detection logic, response playbooks, tabletop exercises, and incident command rhythm.
AI/LLM security and governance
Prompt injection, tool-use risk, data exposure, guardrail review, and launch review criteria.
OT/ICS and operationally sensitive environments
Risk translation for environments where cyber work must respect operational constraints.
Specialist team assembly
Connecting the mission to vetted specialists when deeper execution capacity is needed.
Related work that sharpens the consulting
Related work
Work with Andrew
Start with the business situation, the security decision, and the outcome that would make the conversation useful.