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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

Risk management methods

In this section of the book, we will be building a methodology for risk management. This methodology is not the only way that a RMF can be used but it is one of the methods that are out there.

Threat identification

In this section, we will consider the fundamentals of threat identification and how that is accomplished by the blue team.

In order to identify what threats we have to deal with, we must first identify what risk model is used in an organization.

  • A threat is any situation or event with the capability to destructively affect organizational processes and assets, individuals, and other organizations, through an Information Technology (IT) system via unauthorized entry, destruction, disclosure, alteration of information, and/or denial of service. Threat events are caused by threat sources. A threat source is categorized as follows:
  • The purpose and technique targeted at the abuse of a vulnerability
  • A circumstance and method that...