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Blue team

Meaning in cybersecurity, with examples

nounCommon term

In cybersecurity, blue team means: The defenders in a security exercise, or more generally the people who protect, monitor and respond, such as SOC analysts and incident responders.

In Turkish: mavi takım, blue team

How it is used

Used both for exercise roles and as a career label: 'blue team skills', 'blue teamer'. After a red team exercise, the blue team reviews what it detected and what it missed and improves its detections.

Example sentences

  1. The blue team spotted the red team's phishing email within twenty minutes.

  2. Most of our blue team works in the SOC and on detection engineering.

Common collocations

  • blue team exercise
  • blue team skills
  • blue teamer
  • purple team
  • red teamA group of security specialists who act like real attackers, using any approved method, to test how well an organisation can detect and stop them.
  • SOCSecurity operations centre: the team, and often the room, that monitors an organisation's systems around the clock and responds to security alerts.
  • threat huntingActively searching through systems and logs for signs of attackers who have not yet been detected by automated alerts, often starting from a hypothesis.
  • incidentAn event that threatens or harms the confidentiality, integrity or availability of systems or data, such as a malware infection or an unauthorised login.

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