Red Team Operator Series
4h 27mIntermediate2024-12-03
Authors

Cybrary
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.
Skills covered
Penetration TestingSecurity TestingCybersecurityOne-Off
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
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