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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

Blue Team Operations

From what we’ve seen thus far, we can understand that a blue team requires dedication along with loads of documentation, which is a must if the team wants to achieve great breakthroughs. In this chapter, we will explore blue team operations, the different areas where those operations take place, and how they are completed. You will learn about how operation managers and other blue team members perform their operations in different fields.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Understanding defense strategy
  • Blue team operations – infrastructure
  • Blue team operations – applications
  • Blue team operations – systems
  • Blue team operations – endpoints
  • Blue team operations – cloud
  • Defense planning against insiders
  • Responsibilities in blue team operations