Hands-On Automated Red Teaming: A Practical Roadmap to Automating the Cyber Kill Chain across Cloud and On-Prem Environments

By Gilberto Betts

Hands-On Red Teaming is a cutting-edge guide to modern offensive security, automation, and cyber resilience in the age of AI-driven threats and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Built for cybersecurity professionals, ethical hackers, penetration testers, SOC analysts, and advanced students, this book goes far beyond traditional penetration testing to explore how real-world red teams operate at enterprise scale.

Modern organizations no longer rely on a single network or cloud provider. Today's environments span on-premises Active Directory, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, SaaS platforms, and rapidly changing cloud-native infrastructure. Traditional "point-in-time" testing can no longer keep up. This book shows you how to evolve from manual assessments into fully automated, intelligence-driven red team operations.

Inside this practical roadmap, you'll learn how to:

Build hybrid attack labs using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Automate reconnaissance and attack surface discoveryUse BloodHound and graph theory for lateral movement analysisCreate resilient command-and-control infrastructureUnderstand cloud pivoting across AWS, Azure, and GCPIntegrate AI and Large Language Models into offensive workflowsAutomate reporting, remediation tracking, and operational metricsSimulate enterprise-scale adversary behavior safely and ethically

Unlike many theoretical cybersecurity books, Hands-On Red Teaming emphasizes operational realism, professional reporting, automation pipelines, and continuous testing methodologies. It teaches not only how attacks happen, but how organizations can strengthen resilience, reduce detection gaps, and improve remediation workflows through adversary emulation and measurable security engineering.

The book combines technical explanations, real-world case studies, scripts, exercises, and strategic insights to help readers transition from reactive security thinking to proactive cyber resilience. Whether you are building a red team capability, improving blue team visibility, or preparing for advanced offensive security roles, this guide provides the mindset and technical foundation required to operate in modern enterprise environments.

This is not just another pentesting manual. It is a blueprint for the next generation of automated, scalable, and intelligent red team operations. The threat landscape has evolved. Your skills must evolve with it. If you want to master modern offensive security, automate enterprise-scale operations, and think like the red teams shaping the future of cybersecurity, Hands-On Red Teaming is your field manual.

Start building the mindset, workflows, and technical skills needed to operate at machine speed and become the cybersecurity professional modern organizations desperately need.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H154K8X8
• ISBN13: 9798196128219
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"