Blue Team
What is Blue Team?
The defensive security team responsible for maintaining and improving an organization's security posture by detecting, responding to, and mitigating threats.
Terms that appear alongside blue team
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as blue team. The number is how many controls name both.
- red team 7 shared controls
- purple team 5 shared controls
- phishing 4 shared controls
- cybersecurity 3 shared controls
- security awareness 3 shared controls
- crisis management 2 shared controls
- insider threat 2 shared controls
- walk through 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern blue team
What the standards actually require on blue team
Requirements naming blue team across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The Blue Team produces a report on what it detected and how it responded, to be compared with the red-team activity.
TIBER-3.2 · Blue Team Report →CFI 2.0 introduced blue team requirements for iCAST to measure the effectiveness of the institution's detection, response and recovery functions, so the exercise tests the defenders as well as the red team's attack path, with the blue team encouraged to coordi...
hkma-cyber-resilience-assessment-framework-c-raf::ICAST.8 · Blue team requirements in iCAST 2.0 →The entity must appoint a control team lead responsible for day-to-day management of the TLPT and for the control team's decisions, and put in place measures so that knowledge of a planned or ongoing test is restricted to the control team, management body, tes...
dora-rts-on-threat-led-penetration-testing-commission-delegated-regulation-eu-2025-1190::4 · Article 4: Organisational arrangements for the entity →The plan must require a catalogue of the threats identified against IAC segregated environments with consistent criteria for identifying them and for assessing and categorising them (type, credibility);
api-1164::ID.RA-3 · ID.RA-3 Threat catalogue with consistent identification and categorisation by vector and actor →FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer. SCOPE: building cybersecurity capacity in the constituency + the broader community through awareness + training + exercises + advisory.
FIRST-CSIRTF-SA5-KnowledgeTransfer · Service Area 5 - Knowledge Transfer (Awareness, Training, Exercises, Advisory) →X.805 Clause 8 defines 5 Threat Categories that the X.805 Security Architecture is designed to mitigate + provides a Threat-Dimension Countermeasure Matrix linking each threat to specific Dimensions.
X805-Threats-Destruction-Corruption-Removal-Disclosure-Interruption-72Cell-Matrix-Application · ITU-T X.805 5 Threat Categories - Destruction + Corruption + Removal + Disclosure + Interruption + Threat-Dimension Countermeasure Matrix + 72-Cell Matrix Application + STRIDE + MITRE ATT and CK + Network Modular Risk Assessment →Questions people ask about blue team
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