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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

By : Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis
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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

4.5 (2)
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 cyber threats?

A great blue team member should be able to get into the mindset of an attacker, whether they are external or internal. They must be able to predict how those attackers would react if they were placed inside a defensive block. A blue team should be proactive, defending and attacking at the same time. In this section, we will try to get into the mind of an attacker – how they think, what their goals would be, and why they want to accomplish those goals.

The word cyber was first used in the 1950s to describe a scientific field called cybernetics, which studies how machines and animals are controlled and moved. Beyond this, the term cyber refers to a computerized system.

A new term was coined in the 1990s – cyberspace – a physical space developed behind the electronic activities of computing devices that some people believed existed.

Data theft, data damage, and damage to digital well-being are all cyber threats that threaten the stability...

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