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Re: Best attack strategy for a Red Team?
From: Scott <opiesan () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:28:43 -0400
I use the term "Red Team" loosely here (apologies to all the real pen testers/red team folks on the list). Very few people on the team are professional pen testers, if any. Some of them do it for the company they work for but I doubt any of us are paid to run pen tests on other companies. We're all volunteers to help give the student teams experience dealing with a live opponent. For the sake of the discussion let's call it the attack team instead. Thanks for the book recommendation. I've seen/read plenty that talk about the tools and how to perform specific actions (buffer overflows, password cracking, social engineering, etc.) but few of them went through the proper approach and methodology for deciding which path to take. This book seems to do that along with some of the more specific information. Have you read this one personally or is it generally considered an appropriate book for the pen testing field? Scott On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Stack Smasher <stacksmasher () gmail com> wrote:
This seems like a very basic question for someone on a "Red" team. I would suggest learning to walk before you try to run. Start with some basic pen testing books before asking questions like this. http://www.amazon.com/Penetration-Testing-Network-Networking-Technology/dp/1587052083/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236686211&sr=8-2 On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Scott <opiesan () gmail com> wrote:Howdy folks! I'm part of a Red Team for the Mid-Atlantic region CCDC competition (Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition). There are some pretty talented folks on the team and I'm arguably the least experienced (for now). The short version explanation is that teams of college students are tasked with operating and defending a "corporate" network of systems ranging from web, email, DB, MS Domain servers, VoIP, and normal workstations. They have to patch a wide variety of holes while keeping designated services available for scoring. The team with the most uptime wins. Meanwhile, the red team is busy attacking these services along with anything else we can get into and create havoc for the student teams. My question to all of you is what you would recommend for an attack strategy here. In previous competitions it's been challenging to know where to start as there are many options. Should I find a hole and dig in with backdoors, create new user accounts, take over the admin accounts and lock out the student teams??? Technically the red team is supposed to bring down or deny access to the services the students are scored on (primary objective). There's always more going than that however. I'd like to stay focused when we go into the 3 day event this month so I need a plan. How would you do it if you didn't know more than possibly what types of systems you'll find on the target networks? Thanks. Scott-- "If you see me laughing, you better have backups"
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