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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