Cybersecurity Ops with bash: Attack, Defend, and Analyze from the Command Line

by Paul Troncone, Carl Albing Ph. D.

If you hope to outmaneuver threat actors, speed and efficiency need to be key components of your cybersecurity operations. Mastery of the standard command-line interface (CLI) is an invaluable skill in times of crisis because no other software application can match the CLI’s availability, flexibility, and agility. This practical guide shows you how to use the CLI with the bash shell to perform tasks such as data collection and analysis, intrusion detection, reverse engineering, and administration.

Authors Paul Troncone, founder of Digadel Corporation, and Carl Albing, coauthor of bash Cookbook (O’Reilly), provide insight into command-line tools and techniques to help defensive operators collect data, analyze logs, and monitor networks. Penetration testers will learn how to leverage the enormous amount of functionality built into nearly every version of Linux to enable offensive operations.

In four parts, security practitioners, administrators, and students will

Principles of defense and offense, command-line and bash basics, and regular expressionsDefensive security Data collection and analysis, real-time log monitoring, and malware analysisPenetration Script obfuscation and tools for command-line fuzzing and remote accessSecurity Users, groups, and permissions; device and software inventory

Genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Computers, Computer Science

504 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2019

Reviews

[Henry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't get me wrong, there were some neat bash scripts and tricks in this book. But I felt like the book focused too much on bash and related tools, and too little on actual "cybersecurity ops". That is, it was spread too thin on its goals. I would have rather liked to see a larger focus on techniques, and theory, with anecdotes on how to accomplish them in bash. Lastly, much of the scripts felt too cumbersome to do in bash, and would have been better suited to non-shell languages or dedicated well-known programs.

[Nikolay Fofilov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Its useless book with easy bash commands. If you a good specialist, you already have been knew all commands and how to work with us. I might recommend this book for only beginners.

[Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh, mostly just basic bash commands and scripting.

[Kerszi · Rating 4 out of 5]

jeżeli ktoś zna Basha to jest to książka na jeden wieczór. Polecam, wreszcie znalazłem czemu nie działały mi pewne rzeczy w grep i egrep. Polecam