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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

Getting started on your blue team journey

As discussed in this chapter and Chapter 2, Managing a Defense Security Team, the first and most important thing that an organization can do is hire a CISO or employ a VCISO’s expertise in order to kickstart a blue team’s strategy.

As we learned in Chapter 3, Risk Assessment, creating an inventory of assets is the first thing a CISO should do. The CISO will perform the first risk assessment next in order to try to calculate the risk that the organization faces in the near future.

Subsequently, they will start hiring for the risk management blue team, getting enough people to help implement a Risk Management Framework (RMF). According to Chapter 4, Blue Team Operations, the next thing would be to make the organization security-aware. The risk management team will conduct sessions with the business team and teach them about security awareness until a new staff for that exact purpose has been hired.

As mentioned in Chapter...