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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788475297

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Yuri Diogenes

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Security Posture FREE CHAPTER

2. Incident Response Process

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

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Index

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:

Do not perform these steps in a production environment
Create an isolated lab to test any type of Red Team operation
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
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

Note

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

The first attack exercise might be the oldest one, but it is still valid for testing two aspects of your defense controls:

The accuracy of your monitoring system: Since brute force attacks may cause noise, it is expected that your defense security controls can catch the activity while...

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Authors (2)

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes has been working at Microsoft since 2006, and currently he is a Principal PM Manager where he manages a Team of PMs for Microsoft CNAPP Solution, Defender for Cloud. Yuri is also a Professor at EC-Council University and Trine University. Yuri has a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Intelligence and Forensics Investigation from Utica College, and he is currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has published a total of 32 books, mostly covering information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds many industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, E|CTIA, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP, and MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence.

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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He's a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.

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