Red Team vs. Blue Team

What is a Blue team?

Blue teams can be termed as the company's defenders. Blue Teams, or internal security teams, protect against real attacks and Red Teams. Most security operations teams lack the mindset of constant vigilance against assault, which is a real Blue Team's goal. As a result, Blue Teams should be differentiated from ordinary security teams in most companies. A blue team also tries to identify flaws in a cyber system of an organization. The difference is that the blue team tries to defend the cyber system when the red team attacks.

The blue team uses various techniques to defend the organization. 

Some of them are:

• Perform DNS searching
• Spots unusual activity in the network
• Performs DDOS(distributed denial of service) attack
• Performs footprint analysis
• Identify threats and risks in the cyber system

How do the red team and the blue team work together?

The red team tries to penetrate the cybersecurity and break into the system. The blue team tries to protect the cyber network at the same time. The blue team then further attacks the organization using social engineering and other attacks. The blue team again tries to protect against this attack of the blue team. The red team aims to expose the vulnerabilities of the system.

The organization get benefitted from both of them. Both of them inform the organization about the vulnerabilities of the network.

Differences Between the Red Team and the Blue Team

FAQs

1. What does a Red team do?

The red team shows the organization the flaws of their system by taking the position of an attacker.

2. What is a blue team?

Blue Team defends the organization from the attacks of both real attackers and the Red Teams. The blue team tries to protect the system from attacks continuously.

3. What techniques does the blue team use?

The blue team performs DNS searching, DDOS attack, footprint analysis. It constantly tries to identify the threats to the cyber system of the organization.

4. What techniques does the red team use?

The tools and techniques that the red team uses are phishing, penetration testing, social engineering etc. They try to attack the organization and find the vulnerabilities in the organization.

5. What are the major differences between the red and blue teams?

Red teams attack the organization to gather its weaknesses and thus tell the organization about the vulnerabilities. The blue team defends the organization and uses various tools to strengthen the organization.

Key Takeaways

We have extensively discussed the red and the blue team in this article.

We hope that this blog has helped you enhance your knowledge regarding the red team and blue team, and if you would like to learn more, check out our articles and archives on Cyber Security:

• Difference between Red, Blue and Purple teams
• Active and Passive attacks
• Cyber security archive

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