Chapter 12: Blue Team Tactics for the Red Team

As we discussed previously, pen testers are prime target for adversaries. Therefore, it's also good for us to know about defense techniques. This chapter will highlight and discuss popular blue team tooling that red teamers should be familiar with.

We will highlight the importance of centralized monitoring and offloading audit logs as soon as possible from the machine to other systems. There are some operating system features that can help with forwarding logs, but many blue teams leverage third-party solutions to tackle these challenges. A common problem is that a typical corporate infrastructure is rather diverse, consisting of a wide range of operating systems and versions, and third-party solutions provide a better abstraction layer. In this chapter, we will focus on some of these third-party tools and techniques.

These protection techniques can also be used by the red team to monitor and protect their own infrastructure...