What is a Red Team?
Red Teams are a group of adversary cyber security experts who specialize
in employing sophisticated attack techniques to detect and exploit potential
flaws in an organization's cyber defenses. These offensive teams are usually
highly skilled security professionals or individual ethical hackers
specializing in penetration testing by simulating real-world attack strategies
and methodologies.
Blue Team Skills
A Red Team comprises security experts who play the role of opponents to
get around cyber security controls. Following are the skills required to become
a member of a Red Team:
- Social engineering skills
- Penetration testing skills
- Threat intelligence and reverse
engineering skills
- Strong software development skills
What is a Blue Team?
Blue Teams are defensive security experts in charge of protecting internal networks from all forms of cyber threats and risks. To defend the organization's most valuable assets, the Blue Team acts as defensive experts, while the Red Team acts as offensive experts.
Blue Team Skills
The Blue Team is an organization's defensive security team that protects
against cyber attacks by determining which assets need to be secured and how to
protect them. So here are some skills to be required to become a Blue Team expert:
- Risk assessment
- Threat intelligence
- Monitoring and detection system
- Recognition of vulnerabilities
Red Team vs. Blue Team
Red Teams are offensive security experts specializing in breaking into defenses and targeting systems. Blue Teams are defensive security experts in charge of keeping internal network defenses up to date against any cyber threats and risks.
Red Teams simulate assaults against Blue Teams to verify the network's security effectiveness. These Red and Blue Team activities offer a complete security solution that ensures strong defenses while also keeping developing attacks in view.
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Red Teaming with InfosecTrain
The InfoSecTrain Red
Team Certified Training
is meant to turn you into a skilled Red Team specialist who can defend against
cyber attacks and conduct effective penetration testing to identify them. You'll learn to imitate hacker's and digital
attacker’s conceptual models and mindsets and offensively protect important IT
infrastructure.