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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

Growing as a team

If the program drives home some early success stories, it is typical that management would like more coverage and better operations. This is great news! Especially since, when you first start out, it might be a one-person show.

You must also think of growing backups and replacements since there will be attrition for various reasons over time. It's important to think early on about backups for individuals.

If your team grows beyond five individuals, it will become apparent that there are different subfunctions that team members fulfill. Some will be more interested in coding and automating things, while others will want to be more hands-on with finding new stuff, doing research, and building new exploits and ways to pivot through the environment while challenging the blue team's detection capabilities.

This could be the time to align resources further to split out an offensive tooling team and an offensive operations team. Another option is to attempt...