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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

Summary

In this chapter, we highlighted a set of ideas for performing red teaming operations that might be less commonly performed but are nevertheless important to elevate the security maturity of an organization.

We discussed threats such as cryptocurrency mining, privacy violations, and targeting red and blue teams during operations. To further raise security awareness across the organization, exercises can include members of the leadership team as well. Another area we explored briefly was the manipulation of data to achieve objectives. This could be as simple as modifying telemetry to manipulate future investments, or more advanced machine learnings attacks to trick algorithms and models.

For some of the described exercises, proper planning must be done, as well as getting authorization from proper stakeholders, including legal counsel. For scenarios that are off the table and need to be done operationally, we discussed doing tabletop exercises to cover the spirit of the...