Strategies for compromising a user’s identity

As you can see, identity plays a major role in how hackers gain access to the system and execute their mission, which in most cases is to access privileged data or hijack that data. The Red Team, who are responsible for assuming an adversarial role or perspective in order to challenge and improve an organization’s security posture, must be aware of all these risks, and how to exploit them during the attack exercise. This plan should take into consideration the current threat landscape, which includes three stages:

During Stage 1, the Red Team will study the different adversaries that the company has. In other words, who can potentially attack the company? The first step to answering this question is to perform a self-assessment and understand what type of information the company has, and who would benefit from obtaining it. You might not be able to map all adversaries, but you will at least be able to create a basic adversary...