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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 responsibilities

During this section, we are going to cover the people responsible for risk management in organizations; however, we should always remember that everyone in an organization should be responsible for the risk they pose to it by becoming security-aware and not being idle to threats that the organization faces daily.

Regarding the people responsible for risk management, first and foremost is the CISO, who is in charge of risk mitigations by providing solutions to problems the organization will face or is facing at any moment. Furthermore, the CISO has to be in control and protect the organization from all threats that are stacked against it. The CISO chooses to identify the risk model and what analytical approaches should be used in risk assessment. Also, the CISO will be the one to communicate the risk assessment results to the board along with the solutions that will minimize that risk. Some organizations may not have a CISO position, but this can...