Red Team Development and Operations: A practical guide

by Joe Vest, James Tubberville

Red Teaming is the process of using tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to emulate real-world threats to train and measure the effectiveness of the people, processes, and technology used to defend environments. Built on the fundamentals of penetration testing, Red Teaming uses a comprehensive approach to gain insight into an organization’s overall security to test its ability to detect, respond to, and recover from an attack. When properly conducted, Red Team activities significantly improve an organization’s security controls, help hone defensive capabilities, and measure the effectiveness of security operations.

The Red Team concept requires a different approach from a typical security testing and relies heavily on well-defined TTPs, which are critical to successfully emulating a realistic threat or adversary. Red Team results exceed a typical list of penetration test vulnerabilities, provide a deeper understanding of how an organization would perform against an actual threat, and identify where security strengths and weaknesses exist. Whether you support a defensive or offensive role in security, understanding how Red Teams can be used to improve security is extremely valuable. Organizations spend a great deal of time and money on the security of their systems, and it is critical to have professionals who can effectively and efficiently operate them. This book will provide you with the skills to manage and operate a Red Team, conduct Red Team engagements, and understand the role of a Red Team and its importance in security testing.

Genres: Technical, Hackers, Technology

218 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2020

Reviews

[Calle Svensson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great practical introduction to red teaming. The methods presented are clear and should be easy to implement for an aspiring red teamer. I don't disagree with anything the authors present but I think there two things to keep in mind. The frameworks and processes presented are very comprehensive and they could have done a better job at explaining the relative importance to more easily allow for gradually building up a red team program. Second, while I absolutely appreciate the fairly opinionated approach to the topics since it gives clear guidance to a beginner, a little bit more emphasis could have been put on the fact that this is one of multiple ways to approach a given area. Finally, it is clear that the authors are technical experts and not writers. The prose is occasionally extremely dry and the book could have benefited from another pass from an editor.

In short, I can absolutely recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding what red teaming is or someone looking into getting into the field or starting a red team program, just keep these caveats in mind.

[juan cubillos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy bueno

Contenido actualizado, técnicas y procedimientos bastantes interesantes y perspectivas que ayudan a focalizar ataques. Exelente contenido y muy buenas referencias.

[Stephen Muiruri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always pays to be prepared in the right team.

Preparation is best for maintaining cybersecurity and infrastructural integrity for modern online businesses. The red team funds more exploits than other team's and parties involved in digital security.

[Pravin Patil]

good

[MARTINS KEMME · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read for red team members. Definitely worth reading for managers involved in red/blue team operation planning and managing. Also a good resource to understand what is red/blue teaming.

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Behind the scenes of running an offsec operation

[bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty good overview on red team ops. Doesn’t have much technical depth although technical concepts are discussed. Moreso high-level overview to strengthen understanding of red team ops