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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Summary

In this chapter, we introduced securing end user Windows devices and some of the different Windows 10 versions available. We then covered the Microsoft Defender ATP service by providing a feature overview and guidance for onboarding machines. Following this, we discussed Windows 10 updates using the Windows Update for Business technology and how to configure deployment rings using Intune.

Next, we reviewed advanced Windows hardening configurations, which included technologies such as Windows Hello for biometric authentication, Windows encryption using BitLocker, how to configure Windows Defender AV real-time protection, and SmartScreen. Then, we discussed additional hardening tips to prevent name resolution poisoning and MITM over network communications. We also covered additional hardening tips by discussing Microsoft Office security baselines and hardening Google Chrome. Finally, we finished the chapter with Windows 10 privacy and data protection.

In the following chapter...