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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

Creating and querying information

In the previous sections, we covered the types of objects a graph database can deal with and set up a working environment of the Neo4j desktop. As the next step, we will look at how to use the Cypher language that Neo4j supports to create and query objects in the database.

Creating a node

First, let's create our first node in the database by typing in the following Cypher command:

CREATE (c:Computer { hostname: "SATURN" } )

Afterward, hit the Play button to run the query. This will create our first node, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 5.13: Creating of our first node

Congratulations, you have created your first node!

The CREATE keyword creates a new node. The parentheses define the structure of the node. The c in the node definition, c:Computer, is just an alias or variable for use in the query. We will leverage aliases a lot more later, so it's good to start using them constantly...