Section 1: Embracing the Red

An organization must be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches effectively. Preventive measures alone are not enough to deal with adversaries. An organization needs to create a well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program.

Establishing an offensive security program can help improve the security posture of your organization and identify weaknesses in prevention, detection, and response to security incidents.

In the first part of this book, we will discuss establishing, managing, and measuring an internal offensive security program. This part is en titled Embracing the Red to highlight the importance of having dedicated testing efforts in place and building and encouraging a culture of transparency when it comes to identifying and discussing security challenges and weaknesses within an organization. We will dive into details, learnings, and organizational challenges on how to build, manage, and measure an internal offensive security program.

One of the benefits an internal offensive security team can provide compared to a real-world adversary is that of Homefield Advantage and the collaboration between all stakeholders to demonstrate the immediate benefits of improving the security posture of the organization.

Furthermore, we will explore progressive red team operations, such as crypto jacking, dedicated operations to identify privacy violation, pen testing the pen testers, and much more.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Establishing an Offensive Security Program
• Chapter 2, Managing an Offensive Security Team
• Chapter 3, Measuring an Offensive Security Program
• Chapter 4, Progressive Red Teaming Operations