By incorporating cyber threat intelligence, adversary emulation provides a form of cybersecurity assessment that mimics advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This comprehensive guide introduces an empirical approach with strategies and processes collected over a decade of experience in the cybersecurity field. You'll learn to assess resilience against coordinated and stealthy threat actors capable of harming an organization.

Author Drinor Selmanaj demonstrates adversary emulation for offensive operators and defenders using practical examples and exercises that actively model adversary behavior. Each emulation plan includes different hands-on scenarios, such as smash-and-grab or slow-and-deliberate. This book uses the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base as a foundation to describe and categorize TTPs based on real-world observations, and provides a common language that's standardized and accessible to everyone.

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  Map Cyber Threat Intelligence to ATT&CK

  
  

  Define Adversary Emulation goals and objectives

  
  

  Research Adversary Emulation TTPs using ATT&CK knowledge base

  
  

  Plan Adversary Emulation activity

  
  

  Implement Adversary tradecraft

  
  

  Conduct Adversary Emulation

  
  

  Communicate Adversary Emulation findings

  
  

  Automate Adversary Emulation to support repeatable testing

  
  

  Execute FIN6, APT3, and APT29 emulation plans