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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)
1
Part 1:Establishing the Blue
14
Part 3:Ask the Experts

Vulnerability testing

Conducting a vulnerability assessment is an important step that must be taken in order to find security weaknesses in an application, a network, or even an organization. These assessments can be carried out regularly throughout the firm using software that is designed to do automatic scanning. It is recommended that these scans are done on a regular basis to ensure any newly reported vulnerability is scoped into the latest scan and that the organization stays protected from that threat. The frequency of these scans should be defined by the blue team, keeping in mind the complexity of the organization and the frequency of changes that are deployed.

There are various tools available that offer a breadth of capabilities and features. As with any other product, they should be carefully selected and tested within the organization’s test environment before being deployed in the production setup. Some of these products focus on application-level scans, and...