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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 the red team

Who is red teaming the red team? There are two aspects and reasons why, at some point, especially in a large organization, you must consider engaging in pen testing the red team. Some reasons for this are as follows:

  • Prolonged internal group discussions and exposure, including purple teaming, create a groupthink mindset, and assessments from another team can help highlight new threats. Engaging with peers can help to highlight deficiencies and improve the program.
  • What about assets, tools, and the general collateral that is collected over the course of multiple years? Are they properly secured and safeguarded? The intelligence a red team aggregates over the course of its existence might be quite significant, and testing protection and monitoring mechanisms can help mature the program.

There is another benefit for red teamers, which is to reverse roles so that the attacker is the one being attacked. This is done to give us a better understanding...