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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies Counter modern threats and employ state-of-the-art tools and techniques to protect your organization against cybercriminals

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827793

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Bash

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Yuri Diogenes

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

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 Segmentation

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

External reconnaissance

In this section, we'll cover a number of tools for external reconnaissance. Let's begin by looking at the server scanning tool, Webshag.

Webshag

This is a server scanning tool that can evade detection by intrusion detection systems (IDS). Many IDS tools work by blocking suspicious traffic from specific IP addresses. Webshag can send random requests to a server through proxies, thereby evading the IP address blocking mechanism of an IDS.

Therefore, the IDS will hardly be able to protect the target from being probed. Webshag can find the open ports on a server and the services running on them. It has a more aggressive mode called Spider, which can list all the directories in the server to allow a hacker to dig deeper and find any loosely kept sensitive files or backups. It can also find emails and external links posted on the site. The main advantage of Webshag is that it can scan both HTTP and HTTPS protocols.

Webshag can be used in GUI...

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Authors (2)

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes has been working at Microsoft since 2006, and currently he is a Principal PM Manager where he manages a Team of PMs for Microsoft CNAPP Solution, Defender for Cloud. Yuri is also a Professor at EC-Council University and Trine University. Yuri has a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Intelligence and Forensics Investigation from Utica College, and he is currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has published a total of 32 books, mostly covering information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds many industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, E|CTIA, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP, and MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence.

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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He's a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.

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