If you are responsible for securing a network, you should know that monitoring reliable IT security news is now critical to mitigating threats on your precious goods. Prioritizing that news landscape and rolling out a timely response is also critical to a solid recipe for security. While it is not realistic to expect security architects to have that kind of response time, if you are ignoring IT security news, you might need those backups you have been diligently maintaining or worse. Building a solid incoming information pipeline requires an analysis of the IT security news landscape. The most fundamental elements of this landscape includes threat advisories & guidelines, updates to best-practices and standardization recommendations, and changing legal requirements if they apply to your organizational assets. Threat analysis reports and newly released Common Vulnerability Exposure details (CVEs) are critical secondary elements that relay more detailed information about vulnerabilities affecting specific software. …
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What is red-teaming? A important term in IT security context, a red team (red cell) is a group of hackers with various skill-sets, who simulate attacks on the network infrastructure. By contrast the blue team’s job is to defend the network. Red teams follow a specific set of rules known as the rules of engagement which stipulate what types of attacks are allowed and points in the attack when they should stop and reporting should be done. The attacks may employ technical, physical, social or process-based attack vectors. This intends to cover all aspects of a organization’s security controls such as physical, administrative, and technical. The red team helps step 4 of the NIST Risk Management Framework to assess the security controls. Taking the steps of the cyber-kill-chain into account (reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, installation, command and control, actions on objectives), the red team may simply seek to gain reconnaissance…
If you are studying for CompTia Security+ you are welcome to download and use these following notes which I built while studying for the exam. If you notice any problems with the notes, please let me know!
