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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

Assurance of compliance and the right level of governance

So far, we have delved into how an organization can meet the needs of the many people that are either involved with the organization or surround the organization.

Let’s put things into perspective – governance is the framework of authority and accountability that defines and controls the outputs, outcomes, and benefits from projects, programs, and portfolios. Governance is the mechanism whereby the investing organization exerts financial and technical control over the deployment of the work and the realization of the value it creates every day.

Assurance is the process of providing confidence to stakeholders that projects, programs, and portfolios will achieve their objectives to the end of beneficial change. Assurance can also be applied to compliance, where it can make sure that the organization has all the requirements to meet the regulations and standards that apply to it. As we can see from Figure 6...