Founder and Director at Altered Security.
Nikhil Mittal is a hacker, infosec researcher, speaker and enthusiast. His area of interest includes red teaming, Azure and active directory security, attack research, defense strategies and post exploitation research. He has 13+ years of experience in red teaming. He specializes in assessing security risks at secure environments that require novel attack vectors and "out of the box" approach. He has worked extensively on Azure, Active Directory attacks, defense and bypassing detection mechanisms. Nikhil has held trainings and boot camps for various corporate clients (in US, Europe and SE Asia), and at the world's top information security conferences. He has spoken/trained at conferences like DEF CON, BlackHat, BruCON and more. He is the founder of Altered Security a company focusing on hands-on enterprise security learning.
Friday | Aug
8th2025
DEF CON Creator Stage 2 (Room 232) | Las Vegas Convention Center
Adversary Village Panel
Purple Teaming
Purple teaming is no longer just about red meets blue, it is about shared intelligence, continuous collaboration, and realistic adversary emulation. In this panel, we explore how modern security teams are moving from siloed operations to unified strategies that reflect how real attackers operate.
By rethinking purple teaming as a proactive, intelligence-driven discipline, organizations can uncover detection gaps, improve response times, and drive measurable improvements in their defenses. Join us as we unpack how aligning offensive and defensive teams unlocks the full potential of purple teaming and leads to lasting security impact.
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