This chapter has discussed one of the most complex phases of an attack. Not all of the techniques used here are complex though. As has been said, there are two techniques; horizontal and vertical privilege escalation. Some attackers will use the horizontal privilege escalation methods because they are less tasking and easier to perform. However, veteran hackers who have a good understanding of the systems that they target use vertical privilege escalation methods. This paper has gone through some of these privilege escalation methods. It was clear from most methods that hackers had to target legitimate processes and services in order to escalate privileges. This is because most systems are built using the least privilege concept. Users are purposefully given the least privileges that they require to accomplish their roles. Only the legitimate services and processes are given high-level privileges and, therefore, attackers have to compromise them in most cases...
Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies
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Overview of this book
The book will start talking about the security posture before moving to Red Team tactics, where you will learn the basic syntax for the Windows and Linux tools that are commonly used to perform the necessary operations. You will also gain hands-on experience of using new Red Team techniques with powerful tools such as python and PowerShell, which will enable you to discover vulnerabilities in your system and how to exploit them. Moving on, you will learn how a system is usually compromised by adversaries, and how they hack user's identity, and the various tools used by the Red Team to find vulnerabilities in a system.
In the next section, you will learn about the defense strategies followed by the Blue Team to enhance the overall security of a system. You will also learn about an in-depth strategy to ensure that there are security controls in each network layer, and how you can carry out the recovery process of a compromised system. Finally, you will learn how to create a vulnerability management strategy and the different techniques for manual log analysis.
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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Security Posture
Incident Response Process
Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain
Reconnaissance
Compromising the System
Chasing a User's Identity
Lateral Movement
Privilege Escalation
Security Policy
Network Segmentation
Active Sensors
Threat Intelligence
Investigating an Incident
Recovery Process
Vulnerability Management
Log Analysis
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Index
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