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Incident Response for Windows

Incident Response for Windows

By : Tykushin, Ostrovskaya
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Incident Response for Windows

Incident Response for Windows

4.8 (9)
By: Tykushin, Ostrovskaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity incidents are becoming increasingly common and costly, making incident response a critical domain for organizations to understand and implement. This book enables you to effectively detect, respond to, and prevent cyberattacks on Windows-based systems by equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to safeguard your organization's critical assets, in line with the current threat landscape. The book begins by introducing you to modern sophisticated cyberattacks, including threat actors, methods, and motivations. Then, the phases of efficient incident response are linked to the attack's life cycle using a unified cyber kill chain. As you advance, you'll explore various types of Windows-based platform endpoint forensic evidence and the arsenal necessary to gain full visibility of the Windows infrastructure. The concluding chapters discuss the best practices in the threat hunting process, along with proactive approaches that you can take to discover cybersecurity incidents before they reach their final stage. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the skills necessary to run intelligence-driven incident response in a Windows environment, establishing a full-fledged incident response and management process, as well as proactive methodologies to enhance the cybersecurity posture of an enterprise environment.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1: Understanding the Threat Landscape and Attack Life Cycle
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Part 2: Incident Response Procedures and Endpoint Forensic Evidence Collection
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Part 3: Incident Analysis and Threat Hunting on Windows Systems
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Part 4: Incident Investigation Management and Reporting

Methods of post-exploitation

Post-exploitation is a crucial step in the attack process. It occurs when an adversary has successfully gained access to the target system and wishes to maintain access, escalate privileges, or gather necessary information. This involves performing actions to bypass detection and maintain persistence, enabling threat actors to continue their activities on the system and the victim’s infrastructure.

There are various techniques that can be applied by threat actors to reach their goals at this stage. Boot or Logon Autostart Execution (T1547) and Initialization Scripts (T1037), Event Triggered Execution (T1546), Scheduled Task/Job (T1053), or Valid Accounts (T1078) might be used to get persistence or escalate privileges. In many cases, in the initial stages of attack, such actions can be performed automatically. Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism (T1548), Domain or Tenant Policy Modification (T1484), Hijack Execution Flow (T1574), and Process Injection...

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