Red Team Operator Series

Course details

If you want to assess the viability of your security protocols, building a red team can be a smart move. Red teams let you simulate cyber attacks with the same tools and methods used by cybercriminals in the real world. This course, designed by industry-leading cybersecurity professional development platform Cybrary, covers key program-level perspectives and core skills required to run both small and large red teams across an organization. Tasked with overcoming common challenges such as timelines and budgeting constraints, learn how to conduct research, identify vulnerabilities, and perform attacks on your organization’s security system to test its strength and expose its hidden weaknesses. This course is ideal for cybersecurity professionals who direct internal red teams as well as for security consultants, red team members, and ethical hackers.

Concepts

1. Red Team Operations Overview (RTXO 100)

01 - Introduction to operations overview
02 - What is red teaming
03 - The goals of red teaming
04 - Enterprises and red teams
05 - Red teams vs. pen testers
06 - Penetration testing
07 - Red teaming
08 - Collaboration and purple teaming
09 - Red team objectives
10 - TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures) and Red teaming
11 - Red teaming vs. similar adversary emulation
12 - Attack chain explanations
13 - Attack chain - Network propagation
14 - Attack chain - Action on objectives
15 - Collaboration between red and blue teams
16 - Red teams within enterprises - Red teams in larger organizations
17 - Red teams within enterprises - Red teams in smaller organizations
18 - How red teams drive change
19 - Red teams within enterprises - Trust is sacred
20 - Red teaming operations overview
21 - Red teaming operational phases
22 - Red team remediation

2. Red Team Operations Planning (RTXP 101)

23 - Defining red team operations
24 - Scoping of operations
25 - Selecting key players
26 - Using effective planning
27 - Using deconfliction and white cells
28 - Understanding playbooks
29 - Understanding cells

3. Red Team Leading Operations (RTXO 102)

30 - Naming and scheduling red team operations
31 - Status tracking red team operations
32 - Understanding risk and red team operations
33 - Using tabletops effectively
34 - Tracking red team operators
35 - Running the red team gauntlets
36 - Using reporting and read outs
37 - Read outs
38 - Bonus video - Popular red team report templates

4. Red Team Administration (RTXO 103)

39 - Red team administration - Program approvals
40 - Legal overview
41 - Ethical perspectives
42 - Working with maturity models

Red Team Operator Series

Authors

Cybrary