Build a blue team for efficient cyber threat management in your organization
Key Features
Explore blue team operations and understand how to detect, prevent, and respond to threats
Dive deep into the intricacies of risk assessment and threat management
Learn about governance, compliance, regulations, and other best practices for blue team implementation
Book DescriptionWe'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.
What you will learn
Understand blue team operations and its role in safeguarding businesses
Explore everyday blue team functions and tools used by them
Become acquainted with risk assessment and management from a blue team perspective
Discover the making of effective defense strategies and their operations
Find out what makes a good governance program
Become familiar with preventive and detective controls for minimizing risk
Who this book is forThis book is for cybersecurity professionals involved in defending an organization's systems and assets against attacks. Penetration testers, cybersecurity analysts, security leaders, security strategists, and blue team members will find this book helpful. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) looking at securing their organizations from adversaries will also benefit from this book. To get the most out of this book, basic knowledge of IT security is recommended.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
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978-1-80107-247-2 (9781801072472)
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Kunal Sehgal has been a cyber-evangelist for over 15 years and is an untiring advocate of Cyber Threat Intelligence sharing. He encourages the cyber-defenders to work together, by maintaining a strong level of camaraderie across public and private sector organizations. He has worked on setting up two Information Sharing & Analysis Centers to combat cybercrime, and regularly shares credible intelligence with law enforcement agencies around the world.
Kunal has also worked for various organizations, in leadership roles, to drive security improvement initiatives, and to build cybersecurity services, especially within the APAC Region. He specializes in helping businesses improve their security posture, and resilience, while leveraging the power of cloud.
Kunal resides in Singapore, and invests his non-working hours in researching, blogging, and presenting at cyber-events across Asia. He has 17 certifications/degrees in various IT and information security related topics.
Nikolaos (Nick) Thymianis studied cultural informatics at the University of the Aegean in Greece, during which he received a scholarship to go to the UK and continue his education with an MSc. in Information Security, at the University of Brighton.
Nikolaos' previous work made him associate with people in the healthcare Industry, while doing Cyber Security Assurance and Maturity Assessments for organizations in the NHS, helping to set the standards and guidelines for Hospitals in the UK.
Nikolaos was the CISO of caresocius from 2018 until 2022. Nick is now active in big pharma, working in Risk management/Exception Management. He is always encouraging everyone he meets to be security aware, because security is a problem everyone has to face, not only members of an information security group.
He is an advisor at the University of Piraeus and has also become a recognized Cyber Security Speaker, with an emphasis on communicating about trust in places where it can be unreliable and data segregation where unison can mean disaster.
Table of Contents
Establishing a Defense Program
Managing a Defense Security Team
Risk Assessment
Blue Team Operations
Threats
Governance, Compliance, Regulations and Best Practices
Preventive Controls
Detective Controls
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Incident Response and Recovery
Prioritizing and Implementing a Blue Team Strategy
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