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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

By : Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis
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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)
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Part 1:Establishing the Blue
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Part 3:Ask the Experts

Why must organizations consider metricizing cybersecurity?

Cyber veterans advise companies to measure the performance of the various cyber teams so that managers can manage their teams more effectively. Organizations have no idea how good or bad their cybersecurity posture is if they can’t track ongoing security efforts. Cybersecurity is not something that can be completed once and then forgotten later. Cyber hazards are dynamically evolving, as are the techniques and technologies required to combat them. Blue team managers are advised to have procedures in place to evaluate the efficacy of the precautions that are deployed regularly.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and security postures give us a glimpse into how the blue team is doing over time. This assists the managers and the leadership in understanding what works and what does not, as well as making smarter decisions about future initiatives.

Metrics provide measurable and verifiable...