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This guide details how to conduct comprehensive external reconnaissance using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques. It teaches testers to passively map an organization's entire digital footprint, including enumerating subdomains, discovering internet-facing infrastructure (via Shodan/Censys), identifying personnel data, and analyzing leaked credentials from public sources. Ideal for the initial phases of penetration testing or red team engagements.

This guide details the methodology for conducting internal network penetration tests, simulating an attacker operating from an assumed breach state. It covers initial network reconnaissance, Active Directory enumeration, advanced credential harvesting techniques (e.g., Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash), and lateral movement exploitation to determine the full blast radius of a potential breach. Essential for comprehensive security auditing.

This comprehensive guide details the multi-step workflow for responding to sophisticated phishing incidents. It covers everything from initial triage and detailed email header analysis to analyzing malicious URLs and attachments in sandboxes. Key steps include determining the scope of impact, implementing immediate containment actions (like purging emails and revoking sessions), and executing thorough remediation to neutralize the threat and recover affected accounts.

This comprehensive guide details the architecture and implementation of VLAN-based network segmentation on managed switches. It teaches professionals how to isolate different network zones (e.g., corporate, DMZ, IoT) to enforce strong access controls, reduce the attack surface, and meet compliance standards like PCI-DSS. The workflow includes designing the VLAN plan, configuring trunking, hardening switches against VLAN hopping, and setting up inter-VLAN routing with ACLs.

TLS 1.3 is the latest Transport Layer Security protocol, offering significant security and performance improvements over TLS 1.2. This guide details how to configure and validate TLS 1.3 on various environments, including Nginx, Apache, and Python applications. It covers advanced topics such as Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), HSTS implementation, modern cipher suites, and best practices for securing modern web services.

This comprehensive guide provides a structured, multi-stage workflow for containing active security breaches. It details both short-term and long-term strategies, including network segmentation, endpoint isolation, credential revocation, and evidence preservation. Use this process during confirmed intrusions, ransomware attacks, or lateral movement events to effectively stop adversary activity and secure critical assets before eradication.

Guides SOC teams through validating alerts, isolating networks and endpoints, preserving evidence, and disabling compromised accounts to rapidly contain an active breach while minimizing business impact.

Utilizes User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), statistical baselines, and machine learning models to monitor authentication logs. This skill identifies sophisticated security threats such as impossible travel, credential stuffing, brute force attacks, and compromised accounts in real-time. Essential for security operations and identity access management.

This guide teaches security teams how to deploy and operationalize Amazon GuardDuty for continuous, comprehensive threat detection across entire AWS accounts and workloads. It covers enabling protection plans for S3, EKS, EC2 runtime monitoring, and Lambda, interpreting various finding severity levels, and building robust, automated incident response playbooks using EventBridge and AWS Lambda for immediate containment actions.

A comprehensive guide for security teams on detecting and responding to unauthorized crypto mining operations in cloud environments (AWS, Azure). It details a multi-layered approach, utilizing cost anomaly detection, compute utilization monitoring, GuardDuty findings, and network flow log analysis (VPC/KQL) to identify resource hijacking attempts and suspicious activity across EC2, ECS, and EKS workloads.

This guide provides a comprehensive methodology and technical approach for detecting malicious email forwarding rules. It is crucial for threat hunting, incident response, and proactive security assessments to identify persistent access mechanisms used by adversaries for intelligence collection and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. It outlines necessary prerequisites, workflow steps, and key threat indicators (T1114).

This skill guides the detection of Golden Ticket attacks within Active Directory by analyzing Kerberos logs (Event IDs 4768, 4769, 4771). It hunts for critical anomalies, such as mismatched encryption types (e.g., RC4 in AES environments), impossible ticket lifetimes, or service tickets appearing without a prior ticket grant request. This is essential for post-breach assessment and advanced threat hunting in domain environments.