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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

Using osquery to gain insights and protect pen testing assets

A popular infrastructure for providing insights into a heterogeneous set of machines is osquery. It provides agents for all major operating systems. The best part is that it exposes operating system information via a SQL interface. osquery was created by Facebook and is open source. The GitHub repository for osquery is located here: https://github.com/osquery/.

What better way to understand and learn more about defense strategies than to start using some of the tools that our blue team friends also use? And who knows, you might find some issues or common configuration issues that help you during your operations. You will likely also realize that if you ever find osquery on a host during pen testing, it can be leveraged for quick reconnaissance as well.

Let's walk through configuring and running osquery on Ubuntu.

Installing osquery on Ubuntu

The osquery installation instructions for various platforms can...