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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

Understanding centralized monitoring solutions that blue teams leverage

In the previous chapters, we discussed some useful techniques and ideas for event auditing and how to leverage built-in operating features to gain better insights into what happens on a host. So far, most of the monitoring, alerting, and notification mechanisms we've discussed originated from the monitored machine itself; for instance, we implemented desktop notifications when someone would log on to the machine.

Guerilla style and ad-hoc monitoring, as discussed previously, fit a red team and it is good to leverage such techniques. However, to have better insights at scale and make sure logs are accessible at a later point for forensic investigations, an important part of a good monitoring strategy is to offload audit logs as soon as possible from a machine to another system. Once central logs are in place, monitoring and notifications can be implemented from the central system too.

There is a wide...