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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

Exploring the Neo4j browser

Neo4j comes with a convenient browser, and that's where most of the magic will happen. If you have not opened the browser yet, click the Open Browser button shown in the database we created in the previous section.

The following screenshot shows the default user interface of the Neo4j browser:

Figure 5.11: Default page of the Neo4j browser

The preceding screenshot shows the Neo4j browser. Here is a quick explanation of some of the important parts of the user interface:

  • Point 1: Notice that, in the title bar of the window, the protocol, machine, and port of the instance is displayed (in this case, it is neo4j@bolt://localhost:7687).
  • Point 2: The bar with the cursor is the query window or Editor, which we will use a lot going forward to run queries, import data, and explore our databases.
  • Point 3: The output window pane is the area where the results of commands are shown. Upon first launch, the command :play...