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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838828868

Length 524 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Neo4j

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Johann Rehberger

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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Building the homefield graph using Neo4j

In this section, we will learn more about graph databases and Neo4j in particular. This section will walk you through some of the technical details of how to install and set up Neo4j. Neo4j offers an online sandbox environment. If you would like to experiment with that, it is located at https://neo4j.com/sandbox-v3/.

For a local installation and configuration, the steps are as follows:

Downloading and installing Neo4j Desktop: You can get a copy of the desktop edition of Neo4j at https://neo4j.com/download/. Neo4j is Java-based, so there are versions for most platforms. I have personally used both macOS and Windows versions, and you should pick whichever operating system you are most comfortable with.
Launching Neo4j Desktop for the first time: After downloading Neo4j, start it up. When launching for the first time, there won't be any active databases. The following screenshot shows the UI upon initial startup:
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