Blue team
The defenders who detect, respond to, and fix what the red team finds.
Learn it through a story
- Red Team, Blue Team, Same Team (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 16)
Related terms
- Base image The foundational layer a container is built on top of.
- Baseline behaviour What's normal for an account or system, used to recognise what isn't.
- Blast radius How far the impact of a compromise or mistake can spread from its starting point.
- Botnet A large network of compromised devices controlled together, often without their owners' knowledge.
- Branch protection Repository rules requiring review or checks before code can merge into a main branch.
- Broken object-level authorization (BOLA) An API that checks login but not whether the specific requested record belongs to the requester.