Adversarial Tradecraft in Cybersecurity

Key Features

• Gain an advantage against live hackers in a competition or real computing environment
• Understand advanced red team and blue team techniques with code examples
• Learn to battle in short-term memory, whether remaining unseen (red teams) or monitoring an attacker’s traffic (blue teams)

Book Description

Little has been written about what to do when live hackers are on your system and running amok. Even experienced hackers tend to choke up when they realize the network defender has caught them and is zoning in on their implants in real time. This book will provide tips and tricks all along the kill chain of an attack, showing where hackers can have the upper hand in a live conflict and how defenders can outsmart them in this adversarial game of computer cat and mouse.

This book contains two subsections in each chapter, specifically focusing on the offensive and defensive teams. It begins by introducing you to adversarial operations and principles of computer conflict where you will explore the core principles of deception, humanity, economy, and more about human-on-human conflicts. Additionally, you will understand everything from planning to setting up infrastructure and tooling that both sides should have in place.