Alert! Checking out blue teaming certifications
Before we dive into the certifications, let's quickly mention what blue teaming is. As mentioned in the previous section, red teaming is comprised of individuals who hack systems to illustrate the organizational impact based on vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in the target system. With that in mind, blue teaming can be thought of as the exact opposite.
Blue teaming consists of a team, and a department, of professionals who monitor the security of the systems they work for. This means consistently looking for alerts and determining alerts as incidents, false positives, or false negatives.
Sometimes you may hear these words and phrases used with blue teaming:
- Incident response
- Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
- Operation la Operations (SOC)
- Threat hunting
One of the interesting hot topics coming up with blue teaming is threat hunting. Threat hunting consists of a company employed to go...