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The Effective Red Team: Build Your Team, Plan Your Attack, and Strengthen the Defense
by Trevin Edgeworth, Noah Potti and Jordan Potti
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About the book
The Effective Red Team
A red team can breach sophisticated defenses, reach sensitive systems, and produce an impressive report, yet leave the organization no more secure than before. Avoiding that outcome takes more than offensive skill. It takes sound planning, disciplined operations, and the ability to turn findings into lasting improvements.
Drawing on decades of experience building red team programs inside major enterprises, the authors of The Effective Red Team show you how to build and lead a team, plan realistic attacks, and conduct operations that expose weaknesses your organization needs to address.
You’ll learn how to:
- Build a red team program with a clear mission, established procedures, and support from key stakeholders.
- Select realistic targets and threats based on intelligence and your organization’s security risks.
- Execute adversary emulations, from initial access and persistence to lateral movement and achieving objectives.
- Build reusable attack infrastructure that supports stealthy, repeatable operations.
- Measure your team’s performance and demonstrate where defenses need improvement.
- Turn findings into fixes through clear reports, executive briefings, and collaboration with defenders.
Follow a complete operation emulating a real-world threat actor to see how the principles work in practice. Then put the book to work with sample rules of engagement, operating procedures, reporting templates, and team development tools.
Whether you’re building your first red team or improving an established program, you’ll learn how to make your operations more valuable to the organization you’re protecting.
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Details
- Publisher
- No Starch Press
- Authors
- Trevin Edgeworth, Noah Potti, Jordan Potti
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Feb 16, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781718505100
- ISBN-10
- 1718505108
- Pages
- 424
- Carton quantity
- 24 copies
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Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $43.39 | 38% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $40.59 | 42% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $37.79 | 46% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $36.39 | 48% off list |
| 1,000+ | $35.00 | 50% off list |
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