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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

By : Johann Rehberger
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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

Chapter 1

  1. There are a wide range of objectives and goals for establishing a red team program. The following are some common ones:

    1. Improve the performance of the blue team to successfully detect and recover from a breach.

    2. Identify security and organizational deficiencies across the organization.

    3. Improve security awareness and its culture across the organization.

    4. Practice the remediation and eviction capabilities of the organization by emulating a real system compromise.

    5. Help to further improve the understanding of offensive security across the organization and industry.

  2. An internal red team program can provide a variety of services to the organization, including, but not limited to, the following:

    1. Perform penetration testing and traditional application-level security assessments.

    2. Perform source code audits and code reviews.

    3. Perform offensive security operations, including end-to-end breach emulations.

    4. Develop a security training program and educating engineers...