Publisher's Note: This is an outdated edition published in 2018.
Cyberthreats and the strategies to counter them have evolved
exponentially in the months since this book was first published. A new
edition, updated for 2020 with the very latest in cybersecurity threats
and defense strategies, is now available.
Enhance your organization's secure posture by improving your attack
and defence strategies
Key Features
- Gain a clear understanding of the attack methods, and patterns to
recognize abnormal behavior within your organization with Blue Team
tactics
- Learn to unique techniques to gather exploitation intelligence,
identify risk and demonstrate impact with Red Team and Blue Team
strategies
- A practical guide that will give you hands-on experience to mitigate
risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system
Book Description
The book will start talking about the security posture before moving to
Red Team tactics, where you will learn the basic syntax for the Windows
and Linux tools that are commonly used to perform the necessary
operations. You will also gain hands-on experience of using new Red Team
techniques with powerful tools such as python and PowerShell, which will
enable you to discover vulnerabilities in your system and how to exploit
them. Moving on, you will learn how a system is usually compromised by
adversaries, and how they hack user's identity, and the various tools
used by the Red Team to find vulnerabilities in a system.
In the next section, you will learn about the defense strategies
followed by the Blue Team to enhance the overall security of a system.
You will also learn about an in-depth strategy to ensure that there are
security controls in each network layer, and how you can carry out the
recovery process of a compromised system. Finally, you will learn how to
create a vulnerability management strategy and the different techniques
for manual log analysis.
What you will learn
- Learn the importance of having a solid foundation for your security
posture
- Understand the attack strategy using cyber security kill chain
- Learn how to enhance your defense strategy by improving your security
policies, hardening your network, implementing active sensors, and
leveraging threat intelligence
- Learn how to perform an incident investigation
- Get an in-depth understanding of the recovery process
- Understand continuous security monitoring and how to implement a
vulnerability management strategy
- Learn how to perform log analysis to identify suspicious activities
Who this book is for
This book aims at IT professional who want to venture the IT security
domain. IT pentester, Security consultants, and ethical hackers will
also find this course useful. Prior knowledge of penetration testing
would be beneficial.
