Breach and Attack Simulation by Danish Amber.pdf

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1. OUTMANEUVER THE ATTACKERS:
MASTERING YOUR DEFENSE WITH
BREACH AND ATTACK SIMULATION
By Mohammed Danish Amber

2. ABOUT ME
▪Mohammed Danish Amber
▪Project Manager (Cognizant)
▪Security Researcher | IOT Hacker | OSS Contributor
▪EX NULL HYDERBAD CORE Member/Moderator
▪www.mohammeddanishamber.com
▪[email protected]

3. BEFORE WE START
▪What is Red Teaming?
▪What is Penetration Testing?
▪What is Vulnerability Assessment &
Management?
▪What is Cyber Threat Intelligence?
▪What is SOC?
▪And most Important what is Security
Controls & Security Postures?

4. BOLSTERING YOUR DEFENSES: PROACTIVE
SECURITY WITH BREACH AND ATTACK
SIMULATION (BAS)
▪Cyber threats are constantly evolving.
▪Imagine a valiant knight constantly patrolling the castle
walls, anticipating enemy movements.
▪Proactive approach to cybersecurity.
▪Simulating real-world cyberattacks.
▪Identify –Test –Refine : Security posture
▪Fortify your organization's security

5. UNDERSTANDING BREACH AND ATTACK SIMULATION (BAS)
BAS is a proactive security assessment methodology that simulates real-world
cyberattacks, mimicking the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) commonly
employed by cybercriminals.
Unlike traditional vulnerability scanning, which identifies static weaknesses, BAS
simulates the entire attack lifecycle –from gaining initial access to exfiltrating data.
This comprehensive approach provides a more holistic view of your security posture.
BAS tools leverage advanced techniques like machine learning to continuously adapt
and incorporate the latest threat intelligence, ensuring simulations reflect the most
up-to-date attacker methods.

6. THE ADVANTAGES OF BREACH AND ATTACK
SIMULATION (BAS)
Enhanced Security Posture: BAS empowers
organizations to proactively identify and
prioritize vulnerabilities in their security
posture. By pinpointing the weakest links in the
security chain, organizations can focus their
efforts on the areas that need the most
attention, resulting in a more robust overall
security posture.
Improved Detection and Response
Capabilities: BAS plays a crucial role in
enhancing detection and response capabilities.
By simulating attacks and testing how your
security systems identify and respond to them,
BAS helps you identify gaps in your incident
response plan and refine your detection
mechanisms. This allows your security team to
react more swiftly and effectively to real-world
cyberattacks.
Reduced Risk of Breaches: By proactively
addressing vulnerabilities before they can be
exploited by attackers, BAS helps
organizations significantly reduce the risk of
falling victim to cyberattacks. BAS helps
organizations identify and patch critical
vulnerabilities, implement stronger access
controls, and train employees to be more
vigilant against social engineering tactics –all
of which contribute to a more secure
environment.
Optimized Security Investments: BAS
provides valuable data-driven insights that
help organizations optimize their security
investments. By highlighting the most critical
vulnerabilities and demonstrating the
effectiveness (or lack thereof) of existing
security controls, BAS empowers organizations
to make informed decisions about where to
allocate their security resources strategically.
This ensures that security investments are
targeted towards the areas that will have the
most significant impact on improving the
overall security posture.

7. OPENSOURCE BAS TOOLS
MITRE CALDERA: is a cybersecurity framework developed by MITRE that empowers cyber practitioners to save time, money, and energy through automated security assessments. It
offers an intelligent, automated adversary emulation system that can reduce resources needed by security teams for routine testing, freeing them to address other critical problems.
Atomic Red Team:is a library of simple tests that every security team can execute to test their defenses. Tests are focused, have few dependencies, and are defined in a structured format
that can be used by automation frameworks. The ART maps small and highly portable detection tests to the MitreATT&CK Framework. This framework is not automated, yet supports
Microsoft Windows, MacOS & Linux flavours.
The DumpsterFireToolset:is a modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events. Easily create custom event chains for Blue
Team drills and sensor / alert mapping. Red Teams can create decoy incidents, distractions, and lures to support and scale theiroperations. Turn paper tabletop exercises into controlled
"live fire" range events. Build event sequences ("narratives") to simulate realistic scenarios and generate corresponding network and filesystem artifacts.
firedrillfrom FourCore(us!):is an open-source library from FourCoreLabs to build malware simulations quickly. We have built a set of four different attack simulations for you to use and
build on top of Ransomware Simulations, Discovery Simulation, UAC Bypass, and Persistence Simulation.
The Mordor project:provides pre-recorded security events generated by simulated adversarial techniques in the form of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files for easy consumption. The
pre-recorded data is categorized by platforms, adversary groups, tactics and techniques defined by the MitreATT&CK Framework.

8. OPENSOURCE BAS TOOLS
Infection Monkey from Guardicore:is an open-source breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform that helps you validate existing controls
and identify how attackers might exploit your current network security gaps.
Red Team Automation:provides a framework of scripts designed to allow blue teams to test their detection capabilities against malicious
tradecraft, modeled after MITRE ATT&CK. RTA is composed of python scripts that generate evidence of over 50 different ATT&CK tactics, as
well as a compiled binary application that performs activities such as file timestopping, process injections, and beacon simulation as needed.
Stratus Red Team from DataDog:is Atomic Red Team for the Cloud. It comes with a variety of common attack techniques mapped to the
MITRE ATT&CK matrix that attackers can use to exploit your AWS environment.
Metta:Uber open sourced this adversarial simulation tool, which was born out of multiple internal projects. Metta uses Redis/Celery, python,
and vagrant with VirtualBox to perform adversarial simulation, which allows you to test your host based security systems.
EncriptoBlue Team Training Toolkit:(BT3) is software for defensive security training, which will bring your network analysis training
sessions, incident response drills and red team engagements to a new level. The toolkit allows you to create realistic computer attack
scenarios, while reducing infrastructure costs, implementation time and risk.BlueTeam Training Toolkit.

9. CLOSEDSOURCEBAS TOOLS
AttackIQ: AttackIQ offers continuous security validation through a vast library of attack scenarios. It allows organizations to simulate cyber
threats, measure security controls’ effectiveness, and prioritize vulnerabilities. It provides detailed reports for remediation efforts.
Cymulate: Cymulate offers a SaaS-based platform for security validation. It allows organizations to run simulations of various attack vectors,
including email phishing, ransomware, and more. Users receive real-time feedback and recommendations for improving their defenses.
SafeBreach: SafeBreach enables security teams to emulate cyberattacks, assess security postures, and validate controls. It provides a robust
library of attack scenarios and actionable insights for risk reduction.
PicusSecurity: PicusSecurity specializes in continuous security validation and threat intelligence. It helps organizations evaluate their security
controls and provides insights into threat detection and response capabilities.
IBM Randori: IBM’s Randori BAS tool provides red and blue teams a platform to collaborate on improving security postures. It allows
organizations to simulate attacks, assess security gaps, and prioritize remediation efforts. It also offers threat intelligence integration.

10. CLOSEDSOURCEBAS TOOLS
FortiTester: FortiTesterby Fortinet is a BAS tool for network security testing. It assesses network vulnerabilities, validates
security measures, and simulates cyberattacks to help organizations enhance network security and readiness.
Horizon3.ai: The Horizon3.ai tool offers continuous security testing and simulation. It assesses an organization’s defenses
against cyber threats, helping to identify vulnerabilities and enhance security postures for proactive risk mitigation.
XM Cyber: XM Cyber offers continuous simulation and remediation. It provides a visualized attack simulation platform,
allowing organizations to effectively prioritize and remediate security issues.
BreachLock: BreachLock combines BAS with penetration testing. It offers comprehensive security testing, vulnerability
scanning, and reporting, helping organizations identify and address security weaknesses.
Mandiant Security Validation: Mandiant Security Validation focuses on assessing the effectiveness of security controls
through attack simulations, helping organizations measure their readiness against real-world threats.

11. HOW I DID IT?

12. DEMO 1 –ATTACK IQ WWW.ATTACKIQ.COM

13. DEMO 2 –OPENBAS WWW.OPENBAS.IO

14. Q&A