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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies

You're reading from  Cybersecurity Attacks ‚Äì Red Team Strategies

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838828868
Pages 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Johann Rehberger Johann Rehberger
Profile icon 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

Graph database basics

Before installing Neo4j and creating nodes and running queries, let's discuss the basic concepts of a graph database briefly. At a high level, a graph database models nodes and their relationships. In order to do so, there are a set of basic object types it uses, all of which we will explore in this section.

Although we are mostly going to use Neo4j in the next two chapters, Neo4j is not the only option. The following screenshot shows Studio, the user interface of OrientDB, another popular graph database system:

Figure 5.1: Studio - a user interface to model and explore OrientDB graph databases

Figure 5.1: Studio – a user interface to model and explore OrientDB graph databases

As shown in the preceding screenshot, there are nodes such as bob and SATURN, and edges such as MANAGES and MEMBER_OF. Nodes and edges are two of the basic object types of graph database systems. Let's explore the core object types in more detail.

Nodes or vertices

The first object type is the node, or vertex. Staying...

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