Blue team

What are the objectives of the blue team? What do they do? Why do you need them? Organizations that value their assets (tangible, intangible, and employees) will ensure they are well protected from malicious hackers as cyber-attacks can originate both internally or externally at any time. One of the most difficult tasks is detecting a cyber-attack in real-time and mitigating it. Usually, a group of cybersecurity people is hired within the Information Technology and Communication (ICT) department to proactively harden the security within the organization’s systems and network infrastructure. This group is known as the blue team.

The blue team continuously monitors the network for new and existing threats either from within the company, from an insider threat, or externally, they are the defenders of the network. However, the opposing team, the red team, has different objectives.