Community-Based AI Security & Cyber Defense Program

Purple Bridge Program Overview

Purple Bridge is a comprehensive cybersecurity and AI safety initiative developed through collaboration between Script Kitty Foundation and Script Kitty OS. The program integrates offensive and defensive security training into a continuous learning environment that mirrors real-world cyber operations.

Participants learn by building, breaking, detecting, and defending systems that reflect modern threats including AI agents, large language models, MCP-style orchestration systems, and complex data pipelines.

This program is designed to serve students, underserved adults, career switchers, and advanced practitioners while producing meaningful security outcomes for real platforms.

Core Program Components

AI Red Team Training

Participants learn the fundamentals of offensive AI security through an interactive red teaming game hosted on Script Kitty OS. The environment teaches how modern AI systems fail, how adversarial behavior emerges, and how vulnerabilities propagate across agent-driven systems.

Training includes:

• Prompt injection and indirect injection attacks
• Model manipulation and misuse pathways
• Agent chaining failures
• Data leakage scenarios
• System boundary testing

The goal is to teach how AI systems break so they can be built safely.

Blue Team and Defensive Operations

Every offensive action feeds directly into a live defensive environment. Participants monitor events through a built-in SIEM and security telemetry stack where they learn to detect, investigate, and respond to attacks in real time.

Defensive training includes:

• Log analysis and correlation
• Threat detection and alerting
• Incident response workflows
• Behavioral anomaly detection
• Secure system design principles

This creates a true purple team experience where offense and defense evolve together.

Red Team C2 Framework

Advanced participants gain access to a custom command-and-control framework built in Elixir and hosted within Script Kitty OS. This framework teaches distributed systems security, secure communication design, and adversarial infrastructure modeling.

Participants learn how real attackers operate while simultaneously learning how defenders identify and disrupt those operations.

Community Bug Bounty Program

Purple Bridge includes a long-term bug bounty program that rewards ethical security research through a point-based system. Contributors earn lifetime points for valid findings which determine proportional rewards from future security pools.

This creates:

• Continuous platform hardening
• Long-term contributor loyalty
• Ethical disclosure incentives
• A living security ecosystem

Rewards scale with platform success, aligning researcher incentives with long-term safety.

Education, Mentorship, and Sponsorship

The foundation component of Purple Bridge ensures that financial barriers never block talent.

Support includes:

• Funding for courses and certifications
• Mentorship from industry professionals
• In-person workshops and training sessions
• Travel support for DEF CON and major competitions
• Sponsorship for youth and adults entering security competitions

This ensures talent is recognized and developed regardless of background.

Why AI Security Matters Now

AI systems increasingly control access to sensitive personal data, financial decisions, healthcare systems, and infrastructure. As these systems grow more complex, traditional security models fail to account for emergent behavior, agent autonomy, and cross-system interactions.

Purple Bridge directly addresses this gap by training practitioners who understand both machine intelligence and human impact.

This includes preparing participants to secure:

• Agent-based systems
• MCP-style orchestration layers
• Multi-model pipelines
• Data-heavy AI applications
• Creator platforms and consumer-facing AI tools

The program produces defenders who understand how failures cascade and how to stop them early.

Pittsburgh as the Launch Point

Pittsburgh is uniquely positioned to lead this effort.

With world-class universities, growing AI startups, established research institutions, and a strong hacker community, the city provides an ideal testbed for scalable AI security education.

Purple Bridge will partner with:

• Universities and research labs
• Local startups and technology companies
• Community organizations
• National security and research stakeholders

The goal is to build a model that can expand nationally while remaining rooted in community impact.

Outcomes and Impact

Purple Bridge delivers measurable outcomes across multiple domains.

For participants:

• Job-ready AI security skills
• Real-world defensive experience
• Portfolio-worthy projects
• Professional networks

For communities:

• Increased access to high-paying technology careers
• Reduced digital risk
• Stronger local innovation ecosystems

For industry and government:

• A deeper talent pipeline
• Improved system resilience
• Reduced long-term security costs

Why This Program Belongs in the Public Interest

Purple Bridge is not a product. It is infrastructure for human capability.

By combining open-source technology, community access, ethical security research, and advanced AI defense, this program strengthens both technological systems and the people who protect them.

It represents a sustainable, scalable, and socially responsible approach to AI security at a moment when the stakes could not be higher.