Creative Red Teaming

Mandiant red teams have conducted hundreds of covert red team operations. This course draws on that knowledge to help learners improve their ability to perform advanced offensive operations in an enterprise network.

Learners will better understand advanced threat actor behavior that Mandiant experts have observed through incident response investigations. Learners will also see how Mandiant red teams refine advanced attacker tools, tactics and procedures (TTPs) for use by red teams in their attempts to emulate advanced threat actors. Learners will develop the ability to think like an attacker and creatively use these TTPs to accomplish response goals while avoiding detection.

Mandiant red team leads conduct this fast-paced technical course with presentations and scenario-based labs based on frontline expertise and intelligence-based security research. Learners receive hands-on experience conducting covert cyber attack simulations that mimic real-world threat actors. They will learn how to bypass advanced network segmentation, multi-factor authentication and application safelisting, abuse web applications, escalate privileges, and steal data while circumventing detection methods.

By the end of this course, students will know how to:

• Identify, fingerprint, and compromise a target with custom-crafted payloads while bypassing antivirus (AV) detection
• Deploy creative tactics—from older techniques to newer ones—to maintain access to any compromised machine
• Understand the tools and methods attackers use to exploit the lowest-level user privileges to gain higher, administrative privileges, and move laterally throughout a network while avoiding security alerts
• Avoid and bypass various challenges such as application safelisting, encryption, multi-factor authentication, sandboxes, and more
• Exfiltrate data from “secure” networks undetected, without triggering firewalls or generating alerts
• Identify the goals and challenges of managing a red team operation, including risk measurement and reporting

Red team members, penetration testers, defenders wanting to understand offensive tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) and information security professionals looking to expand their knowledge base.

In-classroom or virtual instructor-led training

• Four days (in-person delivery)
• Five days (virtual delivery)

Students should bring their own laptop computer with the latest browser of choice (Firefox or Google Chrome preferred) and a stable internet connection of at least 10 mbps.