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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered popular blue teaming tooling and how to set up and configure it. We explored osquery as a tool to provide insights to hosts by using SQL queries and how to schedule queries so that they run in regular intervals in order to understand changes that occur to hosts over time.

After this, we looked at centralized monitoring solutions. Specifically, we investigated setting up an Elasticsearch development environment. We did a walkthrough on how to set up Elasticsearch and Kibana with the goal of monitoring access to a decoy file. Afterward, we installed and configured Filebeat to load osquery information into Elasticsearch.

If these topics sparked your interest, take a look at RedELK (https://github.com/outflanknl/RedELK), as well as the threat hunting toolset, HELK (https://github.com/Cyb3rWard0g/HELK).

Hopefully, this brief tour into blue team and threat hunting tooling was useful and provided you with more ideas on what to use for red teaming...