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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 2

  1. Homefield advantage is the benefit that the internal security team has compared to an adversary. Realizing and successfully leveraging that advantage allows us to be one step ahead of an adversary. Internal red and blue teams can practice on the homefield to improve their capabilities of quickly and effectively detecting, responding to, and remediating an attack. Part of a homefield advantage strategy includes close collaboration between all stakeholders to ensure findings are shared and remediated quickly, as well as shared with others in the organization via training to help raise security awareness and understanding of attacks across the board.
  2. STRIDE is a threat classification framework developed by Microsoft. It models threats via the following categories: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege.
  3. The normalization of deviance highlights the slow but steady process within an 
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