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
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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 →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) →HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) - mandatory for HIGH inherent risk AIs + optional for medium tier + modeled on UK CBEST + ECB TIBER-EU (verified separately in this corpus) + intelligence-led red team testing methodology.
HKMA-CRAF-iCAST-RedTeam-PurpleTeam-IntelLed · HKMA C-RAF iCAST (Intelligence-Led Cyber Attack Simulation Testing) for HIGH Inherent Risk AIs →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 →Audit + Drills + Training operationalise the Directions through ongoing assurance + cyber preparedness. (1) CERT-In Cyber Security Audit: organisations should undergo periodic cyber security audit by CERT-In Empanelled Information Security Auditing Organisatio...
CERTIN-Audit-Drills-Training-AwarenessProgram-CERTInExercises-CISO · CERT-In Audit + Cyber Security Drills + Training + Awareness + CERT-In Cyber Exercises + CISO + Information Security Auditor Empanelment →Cybersecurity exercises + drills are mandated per FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines for Tier 2/3 institutions + coordinated industry-wide via Delta Wall + FISC. (1) Institutional Tabletop Exercises: (a) Annual minimum per FSA expectation;
JP-FSA-CYB-Cybersecurity-Exercises-Drills-Annual-Tabletop-Industry-Wide-Exercise-Delta-Wall-FSA-Coordinated-Sector · Japan FSA Cybersecurity Exercises + Drills + Annual Tabletop + Industry-Wide Exercise + Delta Wall + FSA Coordinated Sector-Wide + FISC Drills + Cross-Sector Crisis Coordination + International Exercises + Cyber Range →Questions people ask about blue team
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