Book Image

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)
1
Section 1: Embracing the Red
6
Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Technical requirements

The examples in this chapter can be followed on the majority of operating systems, as the Neo4j graph database system is available on Windows, macOS and Linux. Personally, I have used the Windows and macOS versions. There is a lot of information in the second part of the book, such as, some debugging and troubleshooting might be required, the content is not for beginners.

The examples shown are with Windows, but it should be easy for the reader to translate to other operating systems (path names might differ, for instance). We will also leverage an AWS account, hence, if you want to explore those section yourself, an AWS account is needed, and do some port scanning using Linux.

The code for this chapter can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cybersecurity-Attacks-Red-Team-Strategies/tree/master/Chapter06.