The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals

(ATK-MINDSEC.AE1) / ISBN: 978-1-64459-406-3
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The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals

Here's what you will get

Lessons
  • 12+ Lessons
  • 36+ Exercises
  • 142+ Quizzes
  • 60+ Flashcards
  • 60+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
LiveLab
  • 15+ LiveLab
  • 15+ Video tutorials
  • 30+ Minutes
Here's what you will learn
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  • Who Is This Course For?
  • What This Course Covers
  • Using the Mindset
  • The Attacker and the Mindset
  • AMs Is a Needed Set of Skills
  • Summary
  • The Offensive Attacker Mindset
  • Defensive Attacker Mindset
  • Summary
  • Development
  • Ethics
  • Social Engineering and Security
  • Summary
  • Law 1: Start with the End in Mind
  • Law 2: Gather, Weaponize, and Leverage Information
  • Law 3: Never Break Pretext
  • Law 4: Every Move Made Benefits the Objective
  • Summary
  • Curiosity
  • The Exercise: Part 1
  • The Exercise: Part 2
  • Persistence
  • Skills and Common Sense
  • Summary
  • Your Brain vs. Your Observation
  • Observation vs. Heuristics
  • Observation vs. Intuition
  • Observing People
  • Observation Exercise
  • AMs and Observation
  • Tying It All Together
  • Critical and Nonlinear Thinking
  • Vector vs. Arc
  • Education and Critical Thinking
  • Workplace Critical Thinking
  • Critical Thinking and Other Psychological Constructs
  • Nonlinear Thinking
  • Tying Them Together
  • Summary
  • Reconnaissance
  • Recon: Passive
  • Recon: Active
  • OSINT
  • Signal vs. Noise
  • Summary
  • Attacks in Action
  • Strategic Environment
  • The Necessity of Engagement and Winning
  • The Attack Surface
  • AMs Applied to the Attack Vectors
  • Summary
  • Setting The Scene: Why Psychology Matters
  • Ego Suspension, Humility & Asking for Help
  • Introducing the Target-Attacker Window Model
  • Target Psychology
  • Thin-Slice Assessments
  • Default to Truth
  • Summary
  • Attacker Mindset for Ordinary People
  • Behavioral Security
  • Amygdala Hijacking
  • Analyze Your Attack Surface
  • Summary
  • Testing and Red Teams
  • The Complex Policy
  • Antifragile
  • The Full Spectrum of Crises
  • Final Thoughts
  • Summary

Hands on Activities (Live Labs)

  • Exploiting a Website Using SQL Injection
  • Using the NsLookup Tool
  • Using theHarvester
  • Using a Social Engineering Technique
  • Using Recon-ng
  • Performing Passive Reconnaissance
  • Performing Active Reconnaissance
  • Using Maltego
  • Displaying Metadata Information
  • Using Anti-Phishing Tools
  • Performing a Phishing Attack
  • Gathering OSINT
  • Performing a Spoofing Attack
  • Creating a VPN Connection
  • Analyzing Pwned Passwords
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