Tribe of Hackers Blue Team

25April Mardock

“My dedicated cybersecurity team is entirely focused on defense, but that defense stretches to incident response, risk management, business continuity planning, and disaster recovery.”

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April Mardock has supported cybersecurity and InfoTech in 132 different companies. She is well-versed in complex, multilayered environments and is currently the functional CISO for more than 60,000 users at Seattle Public Schools. She holds a master's in IT and a CISSP security certification, as well as several other industry-specific certs. April's current responsibilities include site-based technology audits, InfoSec policy management, disaster recovery and business continuity consulting, firewall management, penetration testing, email spam and web filtering, and on-site network forensics.

How do you define a blue team?

For me, the blue team is everyone involved in the defense of the business cyber assets. Some are involved in it full-time, some part-time, and some only occasionally, but in reality, we're all on the blue team, as each of us has responsibility to practice defensive cyber safety in our daily work. See something, say something.

My dedicated cybersecurity team is entirely focused on defense, but that defense stretches to incident response, risk management, business continuity planning, and disaster ...