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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216411

Length 572 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Windows OS

Concepts

Hardening

Authors (2):

Matt Tumbarello

Mark Dunkerley

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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Technical requirements

In order to complete the exercises in this chapter, we recommend the following requirements. For Windows Defender Exploit Guard Network Protection, the minimum requirements are as follows:

A Windows 2016 Active Directory domain with Group Policy
Domain Admin rights or equal permissions to create Group Policy objects for the scoped OU of the target systems
A Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise workstation domain-joined and/or Intune enrolled

To complete the Azure Security Center just-in-time exercise and Azure Bastion, you will need the following minimum requirements:

An Azure tenant with a virtual network, subnet, and resource group
An available IP range inside your virtual network that can accommodate a /27 CIDR
A Windows 10 or Server 1909 data center virtual machine with a public IP
Azure Security Center Standard (or a free 30-day trial)