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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 3: Measuring an Offensive Security Program

Little literature can be found that discusses or provides ideas on how to measure the effectiveness of a red team or an offensive security program. Management teams tend to want easy solutions to difficult problems.

When people ask for best practices to be used to measure security, especially red teaming and pen testing, I just smile and think that blindly applying someone else's idea to a seemingly similar problem without considering the unique context and conditions they operate under might result in suboptimal solutions. But I'm a red teamer and that's how we think. We challenge everything.

This chapter covers ideas for measuring an offensive security program and what has worked for me in the past to convey problems, share state, and encourage action to be taken. By no means is there one right way or a single best way to measure progress and maturity.

Some methods are useful for comparing systems with each...