RED HAT NOTES

field notes on offense, defense, and the messy reality between

Articles

Notes from active engagements, training exercises, and post-incident review. Updated whenever the day allows.

Defensive ·

Blue Team Operations

Defenders. Monitors. Responders. The first and last line.

Offensive ·

Red Team Operations

Adversary simulation. Real attacks, controlled outcomes.

Attack Lifecycle ·

Reconnaissance

Stage 1: Know your target before you touch it.

Offensive ·

Payload Engineering

The code that runs on the target after the door opens.

Collaborative ·

Purple Team Exercises

Red and Blue, working together in real time.

Defensive ·

Malware Categories

Taxonomy of the threats you'll see in the wild.

Defensive ·

Threat Hunting

Proactive searching for threats already inside the network.

Frameworks ·

The Attack Lifecycle — 7 Stages

Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain, explained.

Offensive ·

Social Engineering

The human is always the weakest link.

Defensive ·

Incident Response Lifecycle

When something is on fire, how do you put it out?

Defensive ·

Digital Forensics

Reconstruct what happened, from what was left behind.