Professional Red Teaming: Conducting Successful Cybersecurity Engagements

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (March 9, 2019)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1484243080
• ISBN-13: 978-1484243084

eBook Description:

Professional Red Teaming: Conducting Successful Cybersecurity Engagements

Use this unique book to leverage technology when conducting offensive security engagements. You will understand practical tradecraft, operational guidelines, and offensive security best practices as carrying out professional cybersecurity engagements is more than exploiting computers, executing scripts, or utilizing tools.

Professional Red Teaming introduces you to foundational offensive security concepts. The importance of assessments and ethical hacking is highlighted, and automated assessment technologies are addressed. The state of modern offensive security is discussed in terms of the unique challenges present in professional red teaming.

This Professional Red Teaming book:

• Explains how carrying out cybersecurity engagements involves more than exploiting computers, executing scripts, or utilizing tools
• Introduces you to counter advanced persistent threat red teaming (CAPTR teaming) as a reverse red teaming methodology to address challenges faced from advanced persistent threats (APTs)
• Authored by a seasoned offensive security practitioner and published academic who brings a practical, real-world, and tempered approach to cyber operations

Best practices and operational tradecraft are covered so you feel comfortable in the shaping and carrying out of red team engagements. Anecdotes from actual operations and example scenarios illustrate key concepts and cement a practical understanding of the red team process.

What You’ll Learn:

• Understand the challenges faced by offensive security assessments
• Incorporate or conduct red teaming to better mitigate cyber threats
• Initiate a successful engagement
• Get introduced to counter-APT red teaming (CAPTR)
• Evaluate offensive security processes

You also are introduced to counter advanced persistent threat red teaming (CAPTR teaming). This is a reverse red teaming methodology aimed at specifically addressing the challenges faced from advanced persistent threats (APTs) by the organizations they target and the offensive security professionals trying to mitigate them.