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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

4.7 (33)
By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

The book will start talking about the security posture before moving to Red Team tactics, where you will learn the basic syntax for the Windows and Linux tools that are commonly used to perform the necessary operations. You will also gain hands-on experience of using new Red Team techniques with powerful tools such as python and PowerShell, which will enable you to discover vulnerabilities in your system and how to exploit them. Moving on, you will learn how a system is usually compromised by adversaries, and how they hack user's identity, and the various tools used by the Red Team to find vulnerabilities in a system. In the next section, you will learn about the defense strategies followed by the Blue Team to enhance the overall security of a system. You will also learn about an in-depth strategy to ensure that there are security controls in each network layer, and how you can carry out the recovery process of a compromised system. Finally, you will learn how to create a vulnerability management strategy and the different techniques for manual log analysis.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Lessons learned


Every time an incident comes to its closure, you should not only document each step that was done during the investigation but also make sure that you identify key aspects of the investigation that need to be either reviewed to improve or fix since it didn't work so well. The lessons learned are crucial for the continuous improvement of the process and to avoid making the same mistakes again.

In both cases, a credential theft tool was used to gain access to a user's credential and escalate privileges. Attacks against a user's credential are a growing threat and the solution is not based on a silver bullet product, instead, it is an aggregation of tasks, such as:

  • Reducing the number of administrative level accounts and eliminating administrative accounts in local computers. Regular users shouldn't be administrators on their own workstation.
  • Using multifactor authentication as much as you can.
  • Adjusting your security policies to restrict login rights.
  • Having a plan to periodically...

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