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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

Adding more data to the knowledge graph

Hopefully, the little case study was useful in conveying the concepts of why mapping out your organization's home field via a graph is useful. It provides value not only for the red team but also other stakeholders in your organization. There are plenty of data sources to pull data from.

Important Note

One aspect to consider when sharing a graph more broadly is to implement security controls on what parts of the graph can be accessible to whom. This is beyond the scope of this book, but it is something to be aware of.

Let's take a look at some of the most important data sources that you might be able to leverage when building out a home field knowledge graph.

Active Directory

If you are dealing with a Windows environment, then querying domain controllers and the global catalog to gather information about admins on machines, and who uses which machines, is straightforward. There are technical solutions readily available...