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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having homefield advantage

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828868
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Johann Rehberger Johann Rehberger
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 16. Another Book You May Enjoy

Modes of execution – surgical or carpet bombing

When performing operational red teaming, there are two basic approaches when it comes to compromising assets. The first one is to be very targeted and surgical, and the second one is to perform large-scale assessments and exploit attempts. Surprisingly, the second one often leads to a much better understanding of the environment and discovering unknowns. Let's explore this in a bit more detail.

Surgical

A surgical operation typically requires more detailed planning and reconnaissance. This is a good approach when there are clear objectives being set as part of the operation. The goal is to stay under the radar for the entirety of the operation. A surgical approach could, for instance, be as targeted as sending a phishing mail to two or three people and navigating into the victim's inbox to retrieve access to sensitive email or stealing critical business information from the computers of the target.

Carpet bombing...

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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies
Published in: Mar 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838828868
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