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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

Handling logistics, meetings, and staying on track

An approach that works well in my career when it comes to project and operational planning is that it's best to keep it lightweight and focus on the people, rather than implementing a detailed task tracking system. Tracking the high-level deliverables via a simple tracking solution that allows you to highlight the start and end dates of tasks should probably suffice.

The detailed tracking and progress of a project can be tracked within the attack plan (maybe in encrypted OneNote files), which goes beyond the project management aspects and already merges a lot of the logistical with the technical details. This is the place where the team tracks details of tasks, draft findings, the results of scans, and so forth. Such a shared document allows the team and authorized individuals to get insights into day-to-day detailed progress and work. It's a complete logbook in many ways.

When it comes to planning, the best approach...