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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

Why and how organizations can automate this process

Cyber risk management processes provide a comprehensive perspective of the cyber risks and threats a company faces. This enables authorized staff to assess risks and assign metrics to them, record changes in the organization’s risk profile, and track risk and metrics against objectives and tolerance levels. Constructing a risk register is aided by corporate objectives and policies specified by top management, as well as other authoritative sources and standards. Risk assessment questionnaires are generated from the risk registry and used to conduct risk assessments. The results of risk assessments guide the creation and implementation of risk remediation or mitigation programs. Senior management is informed about these strategies, as well as the outcomes.

Risk management solutions can also be implemented for activities and responsibilities that are specified, quantifiable, relevant, and timely. Understanding the KRI standards...