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Purple Team Strategies

You're reading from Purple Team Strategies Enhancing global security posture through uniting red and blue teams with adversary emulation

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801074292

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (4):

David Routin

Samuel Rossier

Simon Thoores

Michael Molho

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Concept, Model, and Methodology

2. Chapter 1: Contextualizing Threats and Today's Challenges FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Purple Teaming – a Generic Approach and a New Model

4. Chapter 3: Carrying out Adversary Emulation with CTI

5. Chapter 4: Threat Management – Detecting, Hunting, and Preventing

6. Part 2: Building a Purple Infrastructure

7. Chapter 5: Red Team Infrastructure

8. Chapter 6: Blue Team – Collect

9. Chapter 7: Blue Team – Detect

10. Chapter 8: Blue Team – Correlate

11. Chapter 9: Purple Team Infrastructure

12. Part 3: The Most Common Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and Defenses

13. Chapter 10: Purple Teaming the ATT&CK Tactics

14. Part 4: Assessing and Improving

15. Chapter 11: Purple Teaming with BAS and Adversary Emulation

16. Chapter 12: PTX – Purple Teaming eXtended

17. Chapter 13: PTX – Automation and DevOps Approach

18. Chapter 14: Exercise Wrap-Up and KPIs

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Command and Control (C2)

Command and Control (C2) refers to a server that's owned by the attacker that's used to communicate and remotely control the compromised systems. This step of the kill chain is continuous through the operation.

T1071 – Application layer protocol

As we've already discussed in this book, especially in Chapter 5, Red Team Infrastructure, attackers usually rely on C2 servers to manage their victims and industrialize exploitations. These servers can use existing protocol application layers such as HTTP, DNS, SMTP, and so on. It even goes deeper by injecting the C2 traffic inside what looks like standard activities. A good example of this approach is Malleable C2 (https://github.com/rsmudge/Malleable-C2-Profiles/tree/master/normal), a collection of add-ons for the Cobalt Strike C2 that allows the attacker to disguise C2 traffic in fake Amazon or Wikipedia traffic, fake certificates for OCSP verification, or simply inside DNS traffic,...

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Authors (4)

Molho

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Routin

Routin

David Routin started, in his teens, to learn cybersecurity in the 90s, the passion is continued through various contributions or projects such as MITRE ATT&CK framework, SIGMA, vulnerability disclosures (Microsoft), public events speaking and multiple publications from French MISC magazine to this book. As a professional, he owned various positions from security engineer to CISO. For the last ten years as Security Operations Center Manager roles, he built and operated multiple SOC for MSSP or private companies. His areas of expertise are SOC, Blue & Purple teaming, incident response, forensic (SANS GCIH/GCFA), detection engineering, management and compliance (ISO27001 or PCI).

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Rossier

Rossier

Samuel Rossier is currently SOC lead within a government entity where he focuses on detection engineering, incident response, automation, and cyber threat intelligence. He is also a teaching assistant at the SANS Institute. He was previously responsible for a private bank group CIRT, and also worked as an SOC manager within an MSSP. He also spent several years within a consulting cybersecurity practice. Samuel currently holds a master's degree in information systems and several information security certifications, including GRID, GMON, eCIR, eCTHP, eCRE, eNDP, and eJPT. He is also a contributor to the MITRE D3FEND and SIGMA frameworks and likes to speak at conferences and analyze malware. He values a strong emphasis on the people dimension of cybersecurity by sharing knowledge.

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Thoores

Thoores

Simon Thoores is a cybersecurity analyst specialized in Forensic and Incident Response. He started his career as a Security Analyst after obtaining an Engineering diploma in Information System architecture focus on security. He built his forensics and reverse engineering skills during large-scale incident responses from malware and ransomware attacks to more advanced attacks for a wide variety of environments, he finally certified these skills with GCFA. Then he moved to the Cyber Threat Intelligence field to better understand attacker methodologies to align and strengthen response and support for his clients. Lately he decided to put his skills and knowledges to emulate threat actors to help customer improve their security.

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