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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies Infrastructure security with Red Team and Blue Team tactics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475297
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 4. Reconnaissance 5. Compromising the System 6. Chasing a User's Identity 7. Lateral Movement 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Security Policy 10. Network Segmentation 11. Active Sensors 12. Threat Intelligence 13. Investigating an Incident 14. Recovery Process 15. Vulnerability Management 16. Log Analysis 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hacking a user's identity

Now that you know the strategies, it is time for some hands-on activity. However, before that, here are some important considerations:

  1. Do not perform these steps in a production environment
  2. Create an isolated lab to test any type of Red Team operation
  3. Once all tests are done and validated, make sure you build your own plan to reproduce these tasks in a production environment as part of the Red Team attack exercise
  4. Before performing the attack exercise, make sure you have the agreement of your manager, and that the entire command chain is aware of this exercise
The tests that follow could be applied in an on-premises environment, as well as in a VM located in the cloud (IaaS).

Brute force

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