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Mastering Windows Security and Hardening

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Security and Hardening Secure and protect your Windows environment from intruders, malware attacks, and other cyber threats

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216411
Length 572 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matt Tumbarello Matt Tumbarello
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Windows Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building a Baseline 4. Chapter 3: Server Infrastructure Management 5. Chapter 4: End User Device Management 6. Section 2: Applying Security and Hardening
7. Chapter 5: Hardware and Virtualization 8. Chapter 6: Network Fundamentals for Hardening Windows 9. Chapter 7: Identity and Access Management 10. Chapter 8: Administration and Remote Management 11. Chapter 9: Keeping Your Windows Client Secure 12. Chapter 10: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure 13. Section 3: Protecting, Detecting, and Responding for Windows Environments
14. Chapter 11: Security Monitoring and Reporting 15. Chapter 12: Security Operations 16. Chapter 13: Testing and Auditing 17. Chapter 14: Top 10 Recommendations and the Future 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Windows 10 privacy

Windows 10 has many great features that provide an enhanced and connected experience for its users. As a result, there are many data- and privacy-related settings that are enabled by default that could pose a potential security risk for some organizations. While many of these features are great for consumer use, they may not be applicable to work organizations. Let's run through a few settings and look where to disable them if needed. To configure these privacy settings, we will leverage Intune device configuration profiles. All of the settings in the following table are available via a Windows 10, and later, platform using the Device Restrictions profile type.

This table is a compiled list of base recommendations:

Figure 9.43 – Recommended privacy settings in Intune

For a full list of settings that can be configured using Device Restriction profiles, including the preceding setting definitions, refer to https://docs.microsoft...

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