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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

Prioritizing and Implementing a Blue Team Strategy

Throughout this book, we’ve seen all the aspects of blue teams, how they are organized, how they conduct their everyday activities, and how they plan and make sure they have covered every eventuality – we’ve analyzed how they do so exclusively.

In this chapter, we will analyze emerging technologies in the detection and prevention space for blue teams, and we will also analyze any emerging strategies for blue teams and much more.

This chapter will summarize the different concepts covered in this book via the story of a blue team’s creation, and you will come to understand the need to prioritize a blue team strategy in your organization.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Emerging detection and prevention technologies and techniques
  • Pitfalls to avoid while setting up a blue team
  • Getting started on your blue team journey