Bea Hughes
Marcus J. Carey, Jennifer Jin · 2020
Bea Hughes came to security the way many did, by using all the kindly offered free equipment available for learning supplied by companies that didn't have firewalls on the 1990s Internet. This chapter includes Hughes' answers to some questions related to the blue team. She describes the blue team as anyone who works on defensive security. Hughes believes that patience and optimism are the two core capabilities every blue team should strive to master. She presents her thoughts on some key strengths of an incident response program. Hughes explains the most bang-for-your-buck security control and discusses her opinion on compliance. She also explains a framework that aligns the activities or functions performed by the blue team with regulatory compliance requirements. She describes how to engage all the different units of an organization to maximize defense.