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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

Penetration testing

Penetration testing, or pen-test or ethical hacking, is a form of more intrusive—and more detailed—testing. Both vulnerability testing and penetration testing have the same broad goal, which is to uncover weak points in the security controls of an organization. The key difference is that vulnerability scans are largely automated, and hence produce standard outputs, whereas a pen-test is carried out manually by an individual or group of individuals. The philosophy here is to wear the black hat and get into the mindset of an actual attacker. This team would typically study the IT environment and decide on the best tactic to break into an IT asset, or even the full environment.

Unlike a vulnerability scan, a pen-test would be more subtle. Here, the testers try to take all precautions to defeat the defenses of an organization and to try to breach a system. Hence, such tests will not cause as many alarms to go off at the SOC, as an automated scan. In...