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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

What are preventive controls?

A preventive control, or preventative control, is a safeguard that is put in place with the intention of preventing a security incident. The purpose of taking preventative measures is to eliminate or reduce as much as possible the potential of a breach, which will inevitably lead to an impact on the organization and the business.

A preventive control makes an effort to thwart any unauthorized efforts to make a change or access a system. This helps preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IT assets. Hence, a blue team needs to deploy the appropriate level of controls and safeguards, per the risk assessment of each IT asset in its scope.

Moreover, any controls in the organization will need to be regularly monitored and updated to ensure they are running at optimal levels and that the changing needs of the business, the industry, and the threat landscape are taken into due consideration.

Benefits

As the name suggests, preventive...