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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)
1
Section 1: Embracing the Red
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Section 2: Tactics and Techniques

Threats – trees and graphs

Threat, or attack, trees break down the anatomy of how a component might be compromised. They help analyze how an asset might be attacked by breaking down individual attack steps into smaller sub-steps. Some of the first work exploring these concepts in computer security was apparently done by Amoroso in Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology (1994), and a few years later by Schneier (https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1999/12/attack_trees.html).

On paper, an attack tree seems like a great idea; it allows you to break down an attack into detailed steps toward achieving an objective. However, using this technique one might end up with many attack trees, which can be hard to manage. Hence, tooling is needed.

How about graphs? Modeling adversarial behavior and associated threats and relationships between components using graphs can be a powerful way to explore connections between systems and components.

One possible way to measure...