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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity Attacks ‚Äì Red Team Strategies A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828868
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Johann Rehberger Johann Rehberger
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Embracing the Red
2. Chapter 1: Establishing an Offensive Security Program FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Managing an Offensive Security Team 4. Chapter 3: Measuring an Offensive Security Program 5. Chapter 4: Progressive Red Teaming Operations 6. Section 2: Tactics and Techniques
7. Chapter 5: Situational Awareness – Mapping Out the Homefield Using Graph Databases 8. Chapter 6: Building a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph 9. Chapter 7: Hunting for Credentials 10. Chapter 8: Advanced Credential Hunting 11. Chapter 9: Powerful Automation 12. Chapter 10: Protecting the Pen Tester 13. Chapter 11: Traps, Deceptions, and Honeypots 14. Chapter 12: Blue Team Tactics for the Red Team 15. Assessments 16. Another Book You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we described a variety of ways to measure an offensive security program, and what maturity stages the program might go through. We highlighted strategies and techniques to develop a mature program by starting out with basic ways to track findings. This included the discussion of mandatory metadata that is required to build successful reports and provide appropriate insights to the organization and its leadership.

We explored a wide range of graphics and charts on how to visualize findings that can be leveraged during reporting and debriefs.

As the next step, we explored attack and knowledge graphs as ways to represent information such as assets and threats and to highlight paths that adversaries take through the network. Afterward, we went ahead and discussed a set of key metrics and objectives with practical examples, and explored how Monte Carlo simulations can provide a totally different way to analyze and discuss threats.

As an exercise, we explored...

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