Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition: A condensed field guide for the Cyber Security Incident Responder.

by Don Murdoch

The Blue Team Handbook is a "zero fluff" reference guide for cyber security incident responders, security engineers, and InfoSec pros alike. The BTHb includes essential information in a condensed handbook format. Main topics include the incident response process, how attackers work, common tools for incident response, a methodology for network analysis, common indicators of compromise, Windows and Linux analysis processes, tcpdump usage examples, Snort IDS usage, packet headers, and numerous other quick reference topics. The book is designed specifically to share "real life experience," so it is peppered with practical techniques from the authors' extensive career in handling incidents. Whether you are writing up your cases notes, analyzing potentially suspicious traffic, or called in to look over a misbehaving server - this book should help you handle the case and teach you some new techniques along the way.

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Reference, Hackers, Computer Science, Technical, Computers

164 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2014

Reviews

[Mark Boltz-Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content was solid and concise. A great on the go book for IR teams. Lots of good references, and presented from experience. The largest flaw was lots of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.

[Ahmed Sultan · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a red team penetration tester I usually trying to follow up out what the teams are doing and how they are handling incidents either real time or even offline handling
That's where Blue team handbook came handy for
The book contain a really nice list of most of techniques/tools which are being used by blue team,
The 1st 35 pages were talking about too much theoretical stuff which wasn't interested for me
The fun started at page 35 where the author started talking about distros and tools which are being used usually and how / when they work , what they need to do the job successfully
Nice tables for many malicious actions and how to find it out and respond according to the severity of it
Over all rate , The book is great and totally recommended
For red team members it's really preferred to have a look at the book , Am trying already to write my own anti forensic kit based on it (Which is why I read that book in the 1st place)
Thumbs up for the author for the great work , and certainly will find his other releases if any

[Tran Quoc Nam · Rating 5 out of 5]

The "Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response Edition" by Don Murdoch is a condensed field guide designed for cybersecurity incident responders. It serves as a practical reference for SOC analysts and "Blue Teamers" (defensive security professionals). Key topics typically include:
• Incident Response Frameworks: Detailed steps for the preparation, detection, analysis, containment, and recovery phases of a security breach.
• Attack Analysis: Technical guidance on identifying common attack vectors like malware, phishing, and network intrusions.
• Tools and Commands: Practical cheat sheets for using tools like Wireshark, Netstat, and various Linux/Windows command-line utilities for forensic investigation.
• Memory and Traffic Analysis: Techniques for analyzing volatile memory and network traffic to find evidence of malicious activity.

[M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good book. Short, sweet and to the point.
One of those books where every line is informative.

[Ashwin Patil]

good

[Kevin Holvoet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful book with solutions and commands that are helpful during incident response.

[Fabrice De Paepe · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting to review some basic concepts to manage my IRPs

[Lucas Tarazona · Rating 5 out of 5]

10/10. Nice examples, some typos but the content is really great and clear

[Jonathan Price · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was typo filled and a pretty outdated thought process. Worth a skim, though

[Roberto Rigolin F Lopes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Get a printed copy of this book. Because if you need it, the analog world might be the only safe place around. Jokes apart, I appreciated the straightforward style; seems that a script tells more than thousands of words.

[VIPUL · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book liked very much