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What Is a Purple Team, and Why Every Security Team Needs One

Host: Joe Cicero, CMO & Alliances  |  Guest: Sarah Hume, Senior Manager

Sarah Hume

Sarah Hume

Senior Manager, Purple Teams Lead

Sarah leads the purple team program at SRA. She has led hundreds of Threat Intelligence-based purple team exercises for Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations over the past 7 years.

Her background is in offensive security, primarily internal network, OT/ICS, and physical security penetration testing. Sarah also has experience in external network penetration testing, web application assessments, OSINT, phishing/vishing campaigns, vulnerability management, and cloud assessments.

Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude from Penn State with a B.S. in Cybersecurity. She is a Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Google Digital Cloud Leader, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and Advanced Infrastructure Hacking Certified.

Joe Cicero

Joe Cicero

Chief Marketing Officer

As the Chief Marketing Officer at Security Risk Advisors (SRA), Joe specializes in fostering partnerships with leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Cribl, Amazon, and Google. A former Microsoft leader, Joe played a pivotal role in driving the growth of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services and shaping the product roadmaps for Defender Experts. At SRA, Joe is dedicated to enhancing the company’s services, refining Microsoft collateral, and building strong connections within the engineering community to deliver innovative security solutions.