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

Mapping out the cloud!

This section is important—in fact, it might be the most important takeaway from this part of the book.

The full power of a knowledge graph can be understood when we start mapping out data outside of our immediate network. Remember that earlier in the book we discussed how red teaming should focus on exploring the unknown and provide alternate analysis. Often, graphs are being built that stop within corporate on-premises boundaries. This is not where you should stop, though! This is because the graph is missing key assets that modern organizations leverage. In many cases, the most important assets are not on premises anymore. Consider cloud assets, such as AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

All of these are commonly targeted by adversaries. For instance, consider Twitter or Facebook account takeovers. There have been a large number of high-profile incidents in these regards, and they are often not even on the radar for red teams...