News Release:CyberCloak.Tech Partnership with Shamar Information Security Inspires New Blue, Red, and Purple Team Cybersecurity Resource for Small Businesses 1/16/2026

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CyberCloak.Tech Partnership with Shamar Information Security Inspires New Blue, Red, and Purple Team Cybersecurity Resource for Small Businesses

Educational page helps business leaders understand modern defensive and offensive security roles

Sioux City, IA – CyberCloak.Tech announced the launch of a new educational resource explaining Blue Team, Red Team, and Purple Team cybersecurity concepts for small and mid-sized businesses. The resource was developed as CyberCloak.Tech expanded its partnership with Shamar Information Security LLC, an offensive information security and penetration testing professional services provider.

The page, now live at https://www.cybercloak.tech/blue-red-purple-teams/, is intended to help business owners and executives better understand how modern cybersecurity programs are structured, tested, and improved over time.

“As we formalized our partnership with Shamar Information Security, it highlighted a gap we see often with small businesses,” said Steven Groetken, founder of CyberCloak.Tech. “Many leaders hear terms like Blue Team, Red Team, and Purple Team, but don’t have a clear, practical understanding of what they mean or how they fit together. This page was created to address that.”

The resource explains:

• Blue Team: activities focused on monitoring, detection, and incident response
• Red Team: testing that simulates realistic, authorized attacks to identify weaknesses
• Purple Team: practices that connect testing results back into defensive improvements

CyberCloak.Tech delivers managed security operations and fractional CISO leadership, while Omaha, NE based Shamar Information Security provides independent offensive security testing such as penetration and application security evaluations. This separation allows defensive and offensive functions to reinforce one another while maintaining professional independence.

“Effective penetration testing and offensive-focused information security testing are necessary to provide organizations with a threat-focused perspective of organizational risk, and to deliver useful data that informs security decisions and risk-reduction prioritization,” said Mike B. President of Shamar Information Security LLC. “By working together, offensive operations delivered by Shamar Information Security enhance the efficiency by which blue teams like CyberCloak.Tech can deliver organizational risk-reducing measures. By keeping these functions separate, clients can be assured that the team configuring and hardening systems is not the same team attempting to compromise them. This separation of duties is a foundational information security practice and critical to producing high-quality, high-integrity results.”

The Blue, Red, and Purple Team page is designed as a foundational reference for organizations evaluating their current security posture or planning future security improvements.

About CyberCloak.Tech

CyberCloak.Tech LLC. provides modular cybersecurity services, including managed security operations, risk assessments, compliance support, and fractional CIO, CISO, and CTO leadership. The company focuses on practical, right-sized security for small and mid-sized organizations.

About Shamar Information Security

Shamar Information Security was born out of a passion for performing high-quality offensive information security professional services and penetration assessments for organizations at various maturity stages within their information security and cybersecurity journey.