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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

Chapter 2: Managing an Offensive Security Team

When it comes to managing an offensive security team, the primary goal is to build upon the foundation that was established in the previous part of this book. The next step directs all resources on the team toward the common goal of your offensive security mission.

Managing means to get the roadblocks out of the way of the team and to enable them to do their best work. This also means to review and observe the work of the team to ensure adjustments and improvements can be made over time.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding the importance of creating a business rhythm for the team, including planning cycles and time for reflection
  • Managing and assessing the team
  • For best results – let them loose!
  • Growing the team
  • Red team management styles and strategies
  • Lessons for managing logistics, meetings, and how to stay on track
  • Leading and inspiring the team
  • ...