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Blue Team Analyst

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Blue Team Analysts build and maintain the continuous defensive posture of an organisation — hardening endpoints and network configurations, writing and tuning detection rules in SIEM/EDR platforms, managing vulnerability patching cycles, and owning the organisation's security baseline. Unlike a SOC analyst whose primary work surface is the alert queue, a Blue Team Analyst's work is equally proactive: architecture reviews of new deployments, security configuration benchmarking (CIS, DISA STIG), firewall policy audits, and purple-team drills that validate whether controls actually catch what they claim to catch. In India they sit inside in-house security teams at BFSI (HDFC, ICICI, Axis), large IT services firms (Infosys, Wipro, TCS internal security), regulated SaaS companies, and MSSPs like Paladion/Atos and CyberQ running managed-detection programmes for enterprise clients. CERT-In's 2022 reporting directive and RBI's cybersecurity framework have accelerated demand for dedicated blue-team capacity outside the SOC alert triage function.