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.
publication date
2020-03-31
what you will learn
Understand the risks associated with security breaches
Implement strategies for building an effective penetration testing team
Map out the homefield using knowledge graphs
Hunt credentials using indexing and other practical techniques
Gain blue team tooling insights to enhance your red team skills
Communicate results and influence decision makers with appropriate data
key features
Build, manage, and measure an offensive red team program * Leverage the homefield advantage to stay ahead of your adversaries * Understand core adversarial tactics and techniques, and protect pentesters and pentesting assets
approach
The reader will gain great insights into different communication approaches to influence and inform risk management and decision-makers about security awareness. Additionally, the reader will learn about important tactics and techniques during red teaming operations to emulate adversarial behaviour and achieve the mission objective.
audience
This is one of the few detailed cybersecurity books for penetration testers, cybersecurity analysts, security leaders and strategists, as well as red team members and chief information security officers (CISOs) looking to secure their organizations from adversaries. The program management part of this book will also be useful for beginners in the cybersecurity domain. To get the most out of this book, some penetration testing experience, and software engineering and debugging skills are necessary.
short description
Cybersecurity Attacks: Red Team Strategies is a guide to building and maturing an internal red team program. It highlights the core strategies to measure and improve security awareness, breach detection, and response capabilities. In addition, we will dive into the technical details of tactics and techniques for red teamers of all skill levels.
subtitle
A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage
keywords
Cybsersecurity, Cybersecurity attacks, pentest team, homefield advantage, red teams, cybersecurity strategies, Blu team
Product ISBN
9781838828868
