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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

Responsibilities in blue team operations

Blue teams operate in many information security sectors. Let’s look at them one by one.

The CISO, who is the lead of the blue team, always stands in every sector as the product owner to those sectors:

  1. Firstly, the infrastructure sector: Here, we see network security personnel whose prime function is to prevent attackers from disrupting operations and getting data out of payloads. This personnel includes firewall monitoring analysts, network operation analysts, network engineers, and cybersecurity engineers. Generally, their goal is to protect the network and stop interruptions to the operations of that network or infrastructure.
  2. Secondly, the system sector: Here, we have operational personnel who handle the systems of an organization, making sure that everything works as planned and no one strays away from normal operations. Roles deriving from this sector include operations analysts, systems analysts, and cybersecurity...