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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)
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Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the important aspects of protecting pen testing assets. This included techniques such as locking down pen test machines to limit the attack surface, as well as improving logging to keep better evidence and records of activities, as well as when they occurred. In particular, we explored the firewall capabilities of common operating systems, and how to configure and change settings to lock down traffic and limit exposure.

Next, we learned more about PAM modules on Linux and how to enable better insights and notifications when logon sessions occur on machines. We explored a wide range of technologies that can help with notifications, including sending emails and creating pop-up notifications on the desktop.

An important part of understanding exposure is to keep an eye on provisioned users of hosts, especially for users that have administrative or superuser rights.

In the next chapter, we will focus on decoy files and deception techniques...