The previous chapter gave you an overall view of all the stages of the cyber-attack life cycle. This chapter will go into the first phase of the life cycle in depth—reconnaissance. Reconnaissance is one of the most important stages of a threat life cycle, where attackers search for vulnerabilities that they can use to attack targets. An attacker will be interested in locating and gathering data, and identifying any loopholes in a target's network, its users, or its computing systems. Reconnaissance is done both passively and actively, borrowing tactics that have been used by the military. It can be compared to the sending of spies into an enemy's territory to gather data about where and when to strike. When reconnaissance is done in the right way, the target should not be able to know that it is being done. This critical attack life cycle phase...
Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies
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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Security Posture
Incident Response Process
Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain
Reconnaissance
Compromising the System
Chasing a User's Identity
Lateral Movement
Privilege Escalation
Security Policy
Network Segmentation
Active Sensors
Threat Intelligence
Investigating an Incident
Recovery Process
Vulnerability Management
Log Analysis
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