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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

Defining metrics and KPIs

Measuring the effectiveness of an offensive security program and how it helps the organization remove uncertainty around its actual security posture and risks is one of the more difficult questions to explore and answer. When it comes to metrics, we need to distinguish between what I refer to as internal versus external adversarial metrics.

Tracking the basic internal team commitments

Internal metrics are those that the pen test team use to measure and hold themselves accountable. Some organizations call these commitments or objectives and key results (OKRs). Initially, the metrics might be quite basic, and comparable to project management KPIs:

  • Performing x number of penetration tests over a planning cycle and delivering them on time
  • Committing to performing a series of training sessions in H2
  • Delivering a new Command and Control toolset in Q4
  • Delivering a custom C2 communication channel by Q1
  • Growing the team by two more pen...