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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 cyber threats using zero-trust security principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236544
Length 816 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Matt Tumbarello Matt Tumbarello
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Windows Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building a Baseline 4. Chapter 3: Hardware and Virtualization 5. Chapter 4: Networking Fundamentals for Hardening Windows 6. Chapter 5: Identity and Access Management 7. Part 2: Applying Security and Hardening
8. Chapter 6: Administration and Policy Management 9. Chapter 7: Deploying Windows Securely 10. Chapter 8: Keeping Your Windows Client Secure 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Hardening for Windows Clients 12. Chapter 10: Mitigating Common Attack Vectors 13. Chapter 11: Server Infrastructure Management 14. Chapter 12: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure 15. Part 3: Protecting, Detecting, and Responding for Windows Environments
16. Chapter 13: Security Monitoring and Reporting 17. Chapter 14: Security Operations 18. Chapter 15: Testing and Auditing 19. Chapter 16: Top 10 Recommendations and the Future 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure

In this chapter, we will discuss best-practice recommendations for hardening Windows Server. We will review the available Windows Server versions, cover new security features in Windows Server 2022, and discuss the built-in roles and features that add functionality to server deployments. Next, we will cover onboarding Windows Server into Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to enable endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities and deploy Windows Defender security baselines. Then, we will review deploying security updates with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Azure Automation Update Management. Keeping servers updated with the latest patches and virus definitions could be considered by many the number 1 recommendation for overall hardening. It also requires the most operational overhead, and these two technologies are foundational in that regard.

Next, we will cover the security controls on Windows Server by implementing...

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