in today’s cybersecurity operations, Red and Blue Teams often act as two sides of the same coin, one focused on attack simulation, the other on defence and resilience. But as threats evolve and infrastructure grows increasingly hybrid, visibility and collaboration between these teams have become essential.
At TDS – Technology Distribution Specialists, our focus is helping organisations Discover | Analyse | Secure | Evolvethrough technologies that unify visibility and assurance across complex environments. One such solution is Profitap IOTA,a compact yet powerful network visibility platform that delivers precision packet capture and analysis.
A Platform for Both Offence and Defence
Unlike conventional network taps or probes, IOTA provides nanosecond-accurate timestamping, hardware-level filtering, local SSD capture, and remote management — all while remaining completely passive on the network.
For Blue Teams: IOTA enables faster incident response, precise threat validation, and forensic-grade evidence for compliance and audit.
For Red Teams: it offers a silent, non-intrusive view of network behaviour to validate exploits, confirm persistence, and map lateral movement without detection.
This shared truth between Red and Blue Teams forms the foundation of a Purple Team approach — where adversarial testing and defensive hardening happen collaboratively and continuously.
Visibility That Scales with Security
As hybrid networks span datacentres, cloud, and OT environments, maintaining uncompromised visibility is critical. IOTA bridges that gap, ensuring every team — from SOC analysts to network engineers — can operate from the same packet-level evidence, enhancing trust and accelerating resolution.
To dive deeper into how IOTA empowers both offensive and defensive cybersecurity strategies, explore the full Profitap article:
Is IOTA a Red Team or Blue Team Tool?
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