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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

What are security controls?

Security controls play an important role in shaping the actions taken by cybersecurity professionals to protect an organization. A lack of proper security puts the integrity of content, availability of systems, and confidentiality of data at risk. There are three main types of IT security controls: technical, administrative, and physical.

Security controls are mainly countermeasures to reduce the likelihood that a threat may exploit a specific vulnerability. This act of reducing risks is called risk mitigation. Though it is improbable to stop all threats, all the time, it is still essential to decrease the likelihood of exploitation. This has been explained in detail in Chapter 3, Risk Assessment.

The primary goal when implementing security controls is to prevent and reduce the impact of security threats. Therefore, the effectiveness of the security controls depends on the right choice of control according to the risk assessment. The type of controls...