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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

Remembering what red teaming is about

With all the discussions about maturity, measurements, and some of the risk management integration ideas that we covered in this chapter, it could be easy to forget why an adversarial red team in an organization is established in the first place.

Part of the job of a red teaming program is to help remove uncertainty and drive cultural change. The big challenge with risk management and measurement is to come up with quantifiable metrics that enable better decision-making. The more that is known, the less uncertainty there is. Penetration testers and red teamers are there to help discover more of the unknowns. Also, red teaming itself does not stop with penetration testing nor with offensive computer security engineering; it is much broader in nature.

Along the lines of an old Persian proverb, also stated by Donald Rumsfeld in a DoD briefing (https://archive.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2636, these are the possible...