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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

Red teaming for privacy

Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), most organizations have started treating privacy violations more seriously. The reason for this appears to be the enormous fines that are applicable when violating these privacy regulations. Imposed fines can be as a high as 4% of the annual turnover of the organization. This basically has the potential to significantly impact the bottom lines of organizations, including very large ones.

There are a couple of interesting sections in the regulation. It's worthwhile reading the entire document too. It can be found at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1528874672298&uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679.

Article 32 does indeed highlight the requirement and necessity to test regularly as it states the following:

"A process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of...