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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

For the best results – let them loose!

A mistake of offensive security engineering leaders (who are or were pen testers themselves) is to quickly call out issues and try to micromanage pen tests. This is especially difficult for someone with a strong technical background and understanding of offensive techniques.

For me, this was also a difficult task. At times, it feels difficult to let go and trust someone else, but if you hire the right people, there is no reason to worry.

Attempt to see the big picture and focus on what you do not know, rather on the things you know well. Focus on the territory that needs exploration, focus on strategy, and discuss with stakeholders you did not meet before to understand their needs and where your offensive team can help them improve or highlight deficiencies.

Protecting the team from unwanted external influences, such as possible reorganizations, unnecessary paperwork, or committing to work that is not in favor of the mission of...