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Attack and defense techniques

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The MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND knowledge databases provide useful techniques for securing your IT infrastructure.
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Ransomware: Prepare for emergencies

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The danger of ransomware attacks calls for a robust backup and monitoring strategy.
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Reducing the Windows 10 attack surface

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Windows attack surface reduction policies make significant progress in protecting your entire IT infrastructure.
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Endlessh and tc tarpits slow down attackers

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Keep an attacker's connections open in an Endlessh "tarpit" or delay incoming connections with the more traditional rate-limiting approach of tc.
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Machine learning and security

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Machine learning can address risks and help defend the IT infrastructure by strengthening and simplifying cybersecurity.
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Credential harvesting at the network interstice

Where the Wild Things Are free

To thwart credential harvesters at the network interstice, you must understand how attackers exploit browser transactions.
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Discovering indicators of compromise

Reconnaissance free

Open source pen testing tools help you view an attack from the perspective of both the attacker and the defender.
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Cyber security for the weakest link

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The balance between IT threats and IT security is woefully unbalanced in a Windows environment, requiring the enforcement of company-wide security standards.
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Forensic main memory analysis with Volatility

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When you examine the memory of a computer after a break-in, take advantage of active support from the Volatility framework to analyze important memory structures and read the volatile traces of an attack.
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Attack Techniques

The best way to stop an attack is to think like an attacker. We’ll show you how to use the Metasploit framework to create a malicious payload that escapes antivirus detection.

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