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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

The road to maturity

In the beginning, a lot of the processes are entirely undefined. There is no clear distinction focusing efforts on targets because the risk or value of assets is not well defined in the organization. Testing might appear ad hoc and no repeatable processes are in place.

At this stage, the offensive team might be primarily driven by engineering or business tasks around shipping services, rather than defining its own objectives to simulate threats to the organization.

It's also not unlikely that there is only one pen tester performing offensive security work and that person might not even be a dedicated resource. Growth typically happens organically when the value of the offensive program becomes clear to the organization by demonstrating its impact and value.

Strategic red teaming across organizations

My growth in the security space came from initially testing software and systems directly for vulnerabilities and exploiting them. Afterwards, online...