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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

You're reading from   Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition Improve your security posture to mitigate risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248776
Length 570 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Authors (2):
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. What is a Cyber Strategy? 4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 5. Reconnaissance 6. Compromising the System 7. Chasing a User’s Identity 8. Lateral Movement 9. Privilege Escalation 10. Security Policy 11. Network Security 12. Active Sensors 13. Threat Intelligence 14. Investigating an Incident 15. Recovery Process 16. Vulnerability Management 17. Log Analysis 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Summary

This chapter has discussed ways in which attackers can use legitimate tools to perform lateral movement in a network. Some of the tools are very powerful, hence they are normally the main targets of attacks. This chapter unveils exploitable avenues that have been used against organizations through which attackers have been able to slip in and out. The lateral movement phase has been said to be the longest phase since hackers take their time to traverse a whole network.

At the end of the phase very little can be done to stop the hackers from further compromising the victim’s systems. The fate of the victim is almost always sealed, as shall be seen in the next chapter. The next chapter will look at privilege escalation and focus on how attackers heighten the privileges of the accounts that they have compromised. It will discuss privilege escalation in two categories: vertical and horizontal. The ways in which these two can be carried out will be extensively discussed...

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