Blue Team: 6 open-source tools to defend your position

Do you ever play computer games such as Halo or Gears of War? If so, you’ve definitely noticed a game mode called Capture the Flag?that pits two teams against each other – one that is in charge of protecting the flag from adversaries who attempt to steal it.

This type of exercise is also used by organizations to gauge their ability to detect, respond to, and mitigate a cyberattack.?Indeed, these simulations are key for pinpointing weaknesses in organizations’ systems, people and processes before attackers take advantage of them. By emulating realistic cyberthreats, these exercises let security practitioners also finetune incident response procedures and beef up their defenses against evolving security challenges.?

In this article, we’ve look at, in broad brush terms, how the two teams duke it out and which open-source tools the defensive side may use.

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