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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)
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Part 1:Establishing the Blue
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Part 3:Ask the Experts

Compliance needs and the identification of compliance requirements

Regarding compliance, we mentioned a few bits in the last section but now it is time to put those things into action. The question to answer is how the organization achieves compliance with regulations and standards in various sectors.

Standards are identified as international regulations that require compliance. If an organization does not comply with these standards, then it cannot commit to international commerce or work in a country other than the country in which it is based. Regarding the country in which the company is based, the regulatory authorities of that country are the ones that should audit the company and see that they comply with their regulations.

As mentioned in other chapters of this book, NIST is one of these standards, which has many parts that the organization should consider complying with. NIST is primarily concerned with information security, security in the general sense, and cybersecurity...