Cybersecurity Attacks - Red Team Strategies

Develop your red team skills by learning essential foundational tactics techniques and procedures and boost the overall security posture of your organization by leveraging the homefield advantageKey FeaturesBuild manage and measure an offensive red team programLeverage the homefield advantage to stay ahead of your adversariesUnderstand core adversarial tactics and techniques and protect pentesters and pentesting assetsBook DescriptionIt'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.What you will learnUnderstand the risks associated with security breachesImplement strategies for building an effective penetration testing teamMap out the homefield using knowledge graphsHunt credentials using indexing and other practical techniquesGain blue team tooling insights to enhance your red team skillsCommunicate results and influence decision makers with appropriate dataWho this book is forThis 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. About the Author Johann Rehberger has over fifteen years of experience in threat analysis threat modeling risk management penetration testing and red teaming. As part of his many years at Microsoft Johann established a penetration test team in Azure Data and led the program as Principal Security Engineering Manager. Recently he built out a red team at Uber and currently works as an independent security and software engineer. Johann is well versed in analysis design implementation and testing of software systems. Additionally he enjoys providing training and was an instructor for ethical hacking at the University of Washington. Johann contributed to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and holds a master's in computer security from the University of Liverpool.