Read Online Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation by Sean Bodmer - Free Book Online

“invisible” threats, categorize them according to risk level, and prioritize their actions accordingly by applying expert, field-tested, private-sector and government-sector methods. Some of the tactics will include deception, counterdeception, behavioral profiling, and popular security concepts within the realm of security that focus on countering advanced and persistent threats.
    The intent is to provide readers with a fresh, new perspective on understanding and countering current persistent threats, as well as advanced threats likely to emerge in the near future. You can read the book in its entirety or focus on specific areas that most interest you or your fields of study. This book is useful to everyone who works in or whose work is influenced by the world of information technology and cyber security.
    Please remember that our primary goal here is to empower you with experience and knowledge of multiple professionals who combined have more than 100 years of experience encompassing every section of this guide, ranging from information operations managers, counterintelligence specialists, behavioral analysts, intelligence analysts, and reformed hackers of the 1990s. With the subject matter experts gathered, we are in a position to publish a book to help increase the understanding of cyber counterintelligence.
    First, we will cover concepts and methods for applying traditional military deception and counterintelligence techniques into the shadow of cyberspace. The goal of this book is to illustrate why the use of deception and counterintelligence is imperative and important across every organization that relies on an IT infrastructure and explains why your information will be attacked through that IT infrastructure. This will help you to learn the motives and intent of the attackers. You will gain a better understanding of the causes of and motivations for malicious online behavior so that you may better understand the nature of the threat.
    The book will also include strategies and techniques to entice and lure your adversary out into the open and play “cat and mouse” with them. Techniques can include ways to counter adversaries who are actively attacking or already within your network into revealing their presence, motives, and intent. You will learn the characteristics of advanced persistent threats. We’ll describe some of the ways these organizations attain access, maintain access, and regain access, which ensures they can control computers and even whole networks. We will then link the military community doctrine to the cyber domain with the intelligence benefit and operational techniques of the advanced persistent threat. The ability to penetrate and maintain stealthy access and collect information on a target is advanced persistence access, and is the bread-and-butter of premier intelligence agencies around the world.
    This book focuses on intelligence analysis, cyber counterintelligence, and operational implementations of how to objectively analyze the details of an intrusion in order to generate highly accurate assessments (profiles) of your adversaries, which can help IT security professionals and/or authorities with attribution and/or apprehension of the criminal. The book includes information about the current legal and ethical ramifications of implementing deception techniques against cyber criminals. Legal components include an overview of the rule of law, preservation of evidence, and chain of custody, which could assist law enforcement officials in a criminal case. However, this coverage is not a replacement for legal representation.
    We believe that after reading our book, you will understand the concept of utilizing deception and maximizing attribution, and will be equipped with tools you can implement to better protect networks and make life exponentially harder for the bad guys (black hats and state-sponsored hackers) who are hacking private and commercial assets for political, economical, and