Blue Team Courses and Certifications

GenAI for Cybersecurity: Blue Team

Use generative AI for defensive security: detect network anomalies with clustering, automate SOAR playbooks in StackStorm with Python, and hunt threats while cutting alert fatigue.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Cooper

LOLBlue - Living Off The Land With Blue Team Tools

Discover how attackers exploit legitimate blue team security tools for malicious purposes in this cybersecurity presentation on Living Off The Land techniques.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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Blue Team Blunders - 5 Common SOC Pitfalls

Discover 5 critical mistakes that Security Operations Centers make and learn how to avoid these common blue team pitfalls in cybersecurity defense.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Infosec

Python for Active Defense

87 ratings at Coursera

Write Python tools for active defense: develop decoys, apply Python to network defense and attack, and build monitoring scripts.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Linode

Intrusion Detection with Wazuh - Blue Team Series with Hackersploit

18 ratings

Deploy and configure Wazuh to monitor agents, analyze security events, detect vulnerabilities, and respond to brute-force attacks.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Packt

SOC Operations for Blue Team Professionals (2026)

Analyze cyber threats and strengthen blue-team defenses using MITRE ATT&CK, Splunk, VirusTotal, PCAP files, log analysis, and static and dynamic malware techniques.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

We live in a world where every click, keystroke, and log-on is a potential battleground. Are you ready to take the helm and protect what matters most? This course will transform you into a digital gua

• INE
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Designed for professionals that are just starting their defensive cybersecurity or security engineering journey, this learning path will introduce you to all of the concepts and skills you'll need to

• INE
• 52 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

NorthSec

Exploring MSIX Threat Landscape - Advanced Attack Techniques and Defense Strategies

Discover advanced MSIX attack techniques including VFS abuse for DLL Hijacking and AppDomainManager Injection, plus defensive strategies and detection methods.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NorthSec

Noise Pollution is Damaging Your SOC

Discover how excessive alerts create "noise pollution" in SOCs, causing analyst fatigue and decreased performance, with practical strategies to reduce false positives and improve threat detection.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linode

HackerSploit Blue Team Series - Network Traffic Analysis with Wireshark

4 ratings

Use Wireshark to filter, export, and investigate packet captures for suspicious traffic, infected systems, malware, and command-and-control activity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linode

Intrusion Detection with Suricata - Blue Team Series with Hackersploit

1 rating

Install, configure, and test Suricata to detect malicious network traffic, write custom rules, inspect alerts, and send logs to Wazuh.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linode

Splunk Security Event Monitoring - Blue Team Series with Hackersploit

1 rating

Configure Splunk Enterprise Security to ingest Snort logs and visualize network intrusions through forwarding, dashboards, and custom event analysis.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Blue Team Security - Actual Security Work for Actual Developers

Practical steps developers can take to strengthen security and reduce the chance their software contributes to a major incident.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Cooper

DeTT&CT - Mapping Your Blue Team to MITRE ATT&CK

Learn to map a blue team to MITRE ATT&CK using attack techniques, gap analysis, and event query language.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk