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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

Types of preventive controls

Typically, there are three types of controls that a blue team could consider. Each type of control should be evaluated by the blue team, and assessed per its risk ratings, to select the appropriate level of control. It is also important to note that in real life, one control may span across multiple or even all of these three categories. Hence, blue teams should invest their time in selecting what is the best fit for their setup.

Administrative

Administrative controls are also referred to as soft controls. Their focus tends to be from a process or an administration perspective, hence they tend to be harder to enforce. The following are some examples of preventative administrative controls:

  • Guidelines and regulations
  • Procedures for boarding and recruiting new employees
  • Checking references and doing background checks
  • Procedures for offboarding and terminating employees
  • Training to raise knowledge of security concerns
  • The...