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Read Team and Blue Team of Cybersecurity: Why You Should Adopt It
Read Team and Blue Team of Cybersecurity: Why You Should Adopt It

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The digital adoption has created widespread advantages of business processes and growth. Modern technological solutions based on digital platform such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics have transformed businesses into a data-driven market of new opportunities. However, tensions rise with the process of protecting online data and safeguarding it from unauthorized access and data loss. The concept of ‘Red Team vs Blue Team’ can be used as an effective method of establishing a stable cyber security system.

The Concept of ‘Red Team vs Blue Team’ of Cybersecurity

This particular idea has been inspired from military trainings exercises between two or multiple teams. The entire group of cybersecurity experts is divided into two teams namely red team and blue team. The red team plays the role of cyber criminals as their primary target becomes attacking the cybersecurity defense system of an organization. The blue team becomes e defender and it’s their job to provide protection and response against cyber attacks.

The scenario stimulates cyber attacks based on real incidents to compromise the cyber environment. This exercise helps an organization to defend itself from modern sophisticated attacks. By stimulating a number of different types of cyber attacks, red team/blue team helps an organization to:

·        Successfully identify vulnerabilities in cybersecurity

·        Detect weak points which needs further improvement

·        Further improve defensive incident response process

This exercise is highly effective for stimulating real environment of identifying and detecting a targeted attack.

The Red Team or the Attacker

As previously mentioned, the red team is responsible for launching cyber attacks with the target to compromise the entire cyber ecosystem of an organization. Members of the red team find weak points and vulnerabilities of the cyber defense system and exploit them. The team consists of ethical hackers and highly experienced cyber security experts who imitate real-world cyber attacks using penetration testing processes.

The red team is responsible for activities such as:

·        Penetration Testing

·        Social Engineering

·        Communication Intercepting

Apart from these activities, the red team also recommends advanced techniques to blue team for improving cybersecurity.

The Blue Team or the Defender

In this scenario, the blue team is the ‘good guy’ team as the members are responsible for mitigating cyber attacks. The team usually consists of incident response consultants for providing guidance about defending the online system from cyber attacks. They are responsible for maintaining a healthy internal network of an organization against multiple risks. The blue team is responsible for making recommendations for improving the cyber security system.

The blue team does the following tasks:

·        Analysis of digital footprints

·        Constant monitoring of network activities

·        Configuration of endpoint security system and firewalls

Benefits of Red Team/Blue Team Cybersecurity

The exercise is highly effective for maintaining a stable cyber security and provides the following benefits:

·        Identification of security gaps

·        Improvement of network security and breakout time

·        Increased cybersecurity awareness among organization staff

·        Elevation of cybersecurity capabilities and effective measures

The Read Team vs Blue Team exercise is an effective way to analyze existing cybersecurity systems of an organization. It also provides real-world experience of a cyber attack to an organization that has never experienced any till now. Overall, it creates cyber awareness among staff and provides detailed description about advanced sophisticated cyber attacks.


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