The Blue Team Operator's Handbook

by Joseph Haynes

The companion to the Red Team Operator's Handbook, this blue team edition provides defenders with the detection strategies and hunting techniques needed to counter the offensive TTPs described in its red team counterpart. Joseph Haynes maps defensive operations to the same MITRE ATT&CK framework, giving blue team operators specific detection rules, log sources, and hunting queries for each attack technique. The book covers building detection engineering programs, writing effective SIEM rules, conducting threat hunts based on behavioral indicators, and running incident response playbooks. Each detection includes the relevant data sources, expected false positive rates, and tuning guidance.