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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By : Johann Rehberger
Book Image

Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By: Johann Rehberger

Overview of this book

It's now more important than ever for organizations to be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches. Preventive measures alone are not enough for dealing with adversaries. A well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program is required. This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and homefield advantage opportunities to boost security. The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you'll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you'll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build, manage, and measure a red team program effectively and be well-versed with the fundamental operational techniques required to enhance your existing skills.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Chapter 10: Protecting the Pen Tester

Pen testers must be concerned about the security of their own machines, especially those machines that contain sensitive client information, passwords, reports, and things along those lines. Pen testers are a prime target for adversaries. I know multiple pen testers that have been targeted and compromised by real-world adversaries, and that is not fun.

Hence, be aware of the importance of protecting pen test assets. Depending on what you are working on, the stakes could be high.

This and the following chapters will highlight a few custom and off-the-shelf tools and techniques that you can employ to gain better insights and protection, or at least hopefully steer some discussions to implement improvements. In this chapter, we will look at the importance of locking down and securing pen test assets. We will then improve the documentation by customizing shells to ensure that screenshots and screen recordings contain additional information by...