Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies: A practical guide to building a penetration testing program having home field advantage

Book Description
It’s now more important than ever for organizations to be ready to detect and respond to security events and breaches. Preventive measures alone are not enough for dealing with adversaries. A well-rounded prevention, detection, and response program is required. This book will guide you through the stages of building a red team program, including strategies and home field advantage opportunities to boost security.

The book starts by guiding you through establishing, managing, and measuring a red team program, including effective ways for sharing results and findings to raise awareness. Gradually, you’ll learn about progressive operations such as cryptocurrency mining, focused privacy testing, targeting telemetry, and even blue team tooling. Later, you’ll discover knowledge graphs and how to build them, then become well-versed with basic to advanced techniques related to hunting for credentials, and learn to automate Microsoft Office and browsers to your advantage. Finally, you’ll get to grips with protecting assets using decoys, auditing, and alerting with examples for major operating systems.

By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build, manage, and measure a red team program effectively and be well-versed with the fundamental operational techniques required to enhance your existing skills.

What you will learn
Understand the risks associated with security breaches
Implement strategies for building an effective penetration testing team
Map out the homefield using knowledge graphs
Hunt credentials using indexing and other practical techniques
Gain blue team tooling insights to enhance your red team skills
Communicate results and influence decision makers with appropriate data
Who this book is for
This is one of the few detailed cybersecurity books for penetration testers, cybersecurity analysts, security leaders and strategists, as well as red team members and chief information security officers (CISOs) looking to secure their organizations from adversaries. The program management part of this book will also be useful for beginners in the cybersecurity domain. To get the most out of this book, some penetration testing experience, and software engineering and debugging skills are necessary.

Table of Contents
Establishing an Offensive Security Program
Managing an Offensive Security Team
Measuring an Offensive Security Program
Progressive Red Team Operations
Situational Awareness – Mapping Out the Homefield Using Graph Databases
Building a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph
Hunting for Credentials
Advanced Credential Hunting
Powerful Automation
Protecting the Pen Tester
Traps, Deceptions, and Honeypots
Blue Team Tactics for the Red Team