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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
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Part 3:Ask the Experts

Tools for detective controls

Now that we understand the scope of a typical SOC and the vast amount of data it would need to consume to identify any threats, the next logical question is: Which tools are available that can help them achieve that? Needless to say, doing this manually is going to be next to impossible. Hence, it is essential for the blue team to get an overview of the types of tools available that could assist it in setting up its SOC. For the scope of this book, we will review a few types of tools available, and as previously mentioned, each blue team must run its own risk assessments and evaluation to determine what is the best fit for its own organization.

Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)

A TIP is a type of cybersecurity solution that primarily focuses on the detection, collection, aggregation, organization, and analysis of threat data from the clear web, the deep web, and the black web. A TIP will gather intelligence that can be put into action from a wide...