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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Book Image

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

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By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture. In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques. By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Google Cloud Platform Logs

Many organizations are moving towards a multi-cloud environment and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is another big player that you need to be aware of how to monitor. GCP Cloud Audit Logs enables you to answer the following questions:

  • Who did what?
  • When was it done?
  • Where was it done?

Using Microsoft Sentinel, you can ingest GCP Identity and Access Management (IAM) logs, which can be used to see admin activity (audit logs), which includes “admin write” operations, and Data Access audit logs, which includes “admin read” operations.

Once the connector is configured, the status will appear similar to the sample screenshot that follows:

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Figure 17.11: GCP IAM connector

Once the connector is configured and ingesting data, you can perform queries using KQL. The example below is checking all GCP IAM logs and filtering the result to show only the following fields: SourceSystem, resource_labels_method_s...