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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

Exploring varieties of cyber operational engagements

Red teaming in the cybersecurity space frequently focuses on infrastructure attacks, performing lateral movement through Windows environments.

Operations focus on this because Windows is still the most dominant infrastructure in most organizations. The risks and the problem space are pretty well understood. There is also very mature, good tooling available (such as PowerShell Empire, PingCastle, and Bloodhound, to name just a few highlights) and it is fun to perform for penetration testers and quite impactful.

The outstanding research and knowledge sharing that's done by the security community, pen testers, and red teamers has led to a better understanding of threats and attacks and has led to stronger defenses and improvements in detection, tooling, and processes.

It started long back by adding mitigations such as stack cookies, and decades later the security community and researchers kept pushing the envelope....