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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 – systems

When talking about systems, we are not just referring to computers but also other types of information technology, such as scanners or other mobile technologies.

A system is considered a generic supporting methodology or technology used by businesses that, if implemented, can lead to any results required by the business. It can be anything. Blue teams have to ensure that those systems are safe and protected from any alterations to their normal usage. Those alterations could be changes to camera footage, deletion of camera footage, changes in code for scanners, and so on.

If those situations happen, the business will likely lose revenue, and disasters and incidents will occur, which can be avoided if the blue team remains vigilant and creates measures that will not allow any external users to access the systems and ensure internal users are really careful when using any of the systems.

Returning to our castle, the king has established...