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Purple Team Strategies

By : David Routin, Simon Thoores, Samuel Rossier
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Purple Team Strategies

By: David Routin, Simon Thoores, Samuel Rossier

Overview of this book

With small to large companies focusing on hardening their security systems, the term "purple team" has gained a lot of traction over the last couple of years. Purple teams represent a group of individuals responsible for securing an organization’s environment using both red team and blue team testing and integration – if you’re ready to join or advance their ranks, then this book is for you. Purple Team Strategies will get you up and running with the exact strategies and techniques used by purple teamers to implement and then maintain a robust environment. You’ll start with planning and prioritizing adversary emulation, and explore concepts around building a purple team infrastructure as well as simulating and defending against the most trendy ATT&CK tactics. You’ll also dive into performing assessments and continuous testing with breach and attack simulations. Once you’ve covered the fundamentals, you'll also learn tips and tricks to improve the overall maturity of your purple teaming capabilities along with measuring success with KPIs and reporting. With the help of real-world use cases and examples, by the end of this book, you'll be able to integrate the best of both sides: red team tactics and blue team security measures.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Concept, Model, and Methodology
6
Part 2: Building a Purple Infrastructure
12
Part 3: The Most Common Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Defenses
14
Part 4: Assessing and Improving

Chapter 5: Red Team Infrastructure

As we learned in the previous chapter, purple teaming involves the capacity to mimic attack techniques in order to test and improve your overall security level. Once we have selected the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) we want to test, we will need to start preparing them. To do so, we will need to install some servers and configure them in order to execute the selected TTPs. However, before jumping into action, we will start by looking at specific distributions that come with preinstalled tools to help us perform the assessment. Initially, this distribution and toolbox can be used as an all-in-one infrastructure. Then, to gradually increase the complexity of our assessments and goals, we will discuss the general concepts and technologies related to Command and Control (CnC or C2), starting with some information and ideas for the selection of our domain names. Following this, we will move on to the different types of C2 that we can use...