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Cybersecurity Attacks ‚Äì Red Team Strategies

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Published in Mar 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838828868

Pages 524 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Johann Rehberger

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Embracing the Red

2. Chapter 1: Establishing an Offensive Security Program

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

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Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi ®)and red teaming

Most likely, you will be familiar with, or have at least heard of, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM®) from Carnegie Mellon. The TMMi®, developed by the TMMi Foundation, explores and defines a framework for measuring test maturity and process improvements. More information can be found at https://www.tmmi.org.

It is based on the CMM® from Carnegie Mellon University, which defines maturity stages for software testing. In this section, we will explore how this framework can be used when it comes to offensive security testing and red teaming. We will put the five levels of maturity, as defined by TMMi®, into a penetration testing context next.

This is an experimental idea to help frame and allow discussions on how you could measure the maturity of your internal penetration test team. Throughout my career, I have been fascinated with quality assurance and testing, especially security testing. What...

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Authors (1)

Johann Rehberger

Johann Rehberger has over fifteen years of experience in threat analysis, threat modeling, risk management, penetration testing, and red teaming. As part of his many years at Microsoft, Johann established a penetration test team in Azure Data and led the program as Principal Security Engineering Manager. Recently, he built out a red team at Uber and currently works as an independent security and software engineer. Johann is well versed in analysis, design, implementation, and testing of software systems. Additionally, he enjoys providing training and was an instructor for ethical hacking at the University of Washington. Johann contributed to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and holds a master's in computer security from the University of Liverpool.

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