Adversary Emulation: Mimicking a real-world cyber attack

Learn how to perform red team adversary emulation exercises end-to-end

What you'll learn:
How to plan and manage adversary emulation exercise
Difference between red teaming and adversary emulation
MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Red team operations attack lifecycle
How to conduct adversary emulation exercise on a live organization
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather information
Weaponizing exploits to gain foothold into the network
Password brute-forcing using custom generated lists
Phishing an employee
Escalating Privileges on Linux and Windows systems
Active Directory enumeration using BloodHound
Active Directory attacks
Establishing persistence via PoshC2 (command and control center software)
Creating an engagement report

Requirements:
Basic knowledge of Kali Linux
Basic knowledge of PowerShell
Basic understanding of penetration testing and red teaming
Red Teamer mindset

Description:
Red Team Adversary Emulation, focuses on approaching an organization's security from the view of a real-world adversary. In this course, we perform a live Adversary Emulation exercise and try to steal customer data of a FinTech startup. We are hired by a FinTech startup to conduct an adversary emulation exercise and steal their customer data (before an actual adversary). This exercise assumes zero knowledge about the target network.
During an adversary emulation exercise we mimic a real world cyber attack with a specific objective, such as stealing customer data, launching a ransomware attack etc. This course follows the Red Team Operations Attack Lifecycle to conduct this exercise. We go through each phase in a step-by-step manner and build our attack path as we move ahead. We employee a variety of techniques, such as
Active and passive information gathering
Gaining foothold into the network
Host Discovery
Brute-forcing
Phishing
Privilege Escalation (Linux and Windows)
Automated Active Directory domain enumeration
Persistence via command and control center
Active Directory attacks
to achieve our objective. Upon completion of the exercise, we will prepare and submit a report to the organization's management.
This course also covers installation and usage of tools such as, PoshC2, Mentalist, BloodHound, Mimikatz, Metasploit, PowerUp, icacls, PowerShell etc.
This is a beginner friendly course. If you have just started your career in offensive cybersecurity or are preparing for penetration testing exams then this course is for you. If you are already a penetration tester or a red teamer, with a few years of experience under your belt, then you would already know most of the above mentioned techniques. However, if you are interested in witnessing a live adversary emulation exercise, please feel free to follow along.

Who this course is for:
Students curious about conducting a real-world security engagement
Students preparing for penetration testing certifications
Beginners in Red Teaming
Cybersecurity Professionals
Information Security Managers

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