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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

By : Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis
Book Image

Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

By: Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis

Overview of this book

We've reached a point where all organizational data is connected through some network. With advancements and connectivity comes ever-evolving cyber threats - compromising sensitive data and access to vulnerable systems. Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies is a comprehensive guide that will help you extend your cybersecurity knowledge and teach you to implement blue teams in your organization from scratch. Through the course of this book, you’ll learn defensive cybersecurity measures while thinking from an attacker's perspective. With this book, you'll be able to test and assess the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity posture. No matter the medium your organization has chosen- cloud, on-premises, or hybrid, this book will provide an in-depth understanding of how cyber attackers can penetrate your systems and gain access to sensitive information. Beginning with a brief overview of the importance of a blue team, you’ll learn important techniques and best practices a cybersecurity operator or a blue team practitioner should be aware of. By understanding tools, processes, and operations, you’ll be equipped with evolving solutions and strategies to overcome cybersecurity challenges and successfully manage cyber threats to avoid adversaries. By the end of this book, you'll have enough exposure to blue team operations and be able to successfully set up a blue team in your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1:Establishing the Blue
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Part 3:Ask the Experts

What are detective controls?

The term detective control comes from the field of accounting, where one of the mandated controls was to physically audit and count the number of items stored in the warehouse. The intention was to establish whether the actual inventories corresponded with those that were reported in the accounting system.

From a cybersecurity perspective, detective controls are measures put in place to detect and alert on any unauthorized activity on the organization’s IT assets. This could help look for any malicious activity in real time or retrospectively.

In a nutshell, detective controls make it feasible to discover cybersecurity incidents in a timely way. Such controls complement preventive controls to ensure no threat can penetrate the defenses and compromise the organization’s systems or data. As an analogy, imagine a building that is physically secured by strong biometric locks, with high walls defending the perimeter and patrolled 24x7 by...