A good defense takes some testing. Ethical hacking involves pitting two teams together for the sake of strengthening digital security defenses. The red team attempts to bypass digital security barriers. By doing so, they reveal both misconceptions and flaws in their employer’s attack detection. Then, the blue team tries to defend against the red team’s attack attempts. Putting together a good blue team can be difficult. How do you make the best one you can?
Making the Most of This Exercise
Both red teams and blue teams need trained personnel and sufficient resources to make an ethical hacking exercise work. This can be challenging for blue teams.
One of the biggest obstacles is a lack of knowledge. Sometimes, it’s an issue of not knowing what defenders are. Here’s Bill Mahony, a head of cybersecurity, with some insight.
For people just starting out in security, I think part of the issue is the lack of understanding of what “blue team” actually is. The offensive security side certainly gets more press. I meet people who think it’s all about penetration testing and have little awareness of areas such as incident response, threat intelligence, etc. Without an understanding of what roles are actually available in cyber defense, it’s harder for people to identify and develop the sk ..
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