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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the importance of creating a regular rhythm for the team, including operational syncs, planning cycles, and time for reflection.

We covered management aspects for assessing the performance of the team and individuals and talking about how the manager is responsible for enabling the team. This includes ensuring the team has what it needs to be successful.

Afterward, we covered different ways of how to plan for future operations and what strategies can be leveraged to get a wide range of potential offensive operations in the planning cycle.

Leveraging the homefield advantage of the internal security teams is something we discussed thoroughly. This can help break down organization barriers and encourage close collaboration between stakeholders, including but not limited to red and blue teams. Purple teaming can ensure that effective mitigations and improvements are implemented quickly throughout the organization. It also raises security...