What are cyber threats?
A great blue team member should be able to get into the mindset of an attacker, whether they are external or internal. They must be able to predict how those attackers would react if they were placed inside a defensive block. A blue team should be proactive, defending and attacking at the same time. In this section, we will try to get into the mind of an attacker – how they think, what their goals would be, and why they want to accomplish those goals.
The word cyber was first used in the 1950s to describe a scientific field called cybernetics, which studies how machines and animals are controlled and moved. Beyond this, the term cyber refers to a computerized system.
A new term was coined in the 1990s – cyberspace – a physical space developed behind the electronic activities of computing devices that some people believed existed.
Data theft, data damage, and damage to digital well-being are all cyber threats that threaten the stability...