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Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators

You're reading from   Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators Unleash the power of Windows 11 with effective techniques and strategies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618592
Length 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Manuel Singer Manuel Singer
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Jeff Stokes Jeff Stokes
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Steve Miles Steve Miles
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Richard Diver Richard Diver
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Windows 11 – Installation and Upgrading 2. Chapter 2: Introduction to PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Configuration and Customization 4. Chapter 4: User Account Administration 5. Chapter 5: Tools to Manage Windows 11 6. Chapter 6: Device Management 7. Chapter 7: Accessing Enterprise Data in BYOD and CYOD Scenarios 8. Chapter 8: Windows 11 Security 9. Chapter 9: Advanced Configurations 10. Chapter 10: Windows 11 21H2 and 22H2 Changes (versus Windows 10) 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ensuring that we operate system security

As a part of our defense-in-depth look at securing Windows 11 systems, this section looks at the security measures we can take to protect the OS. These include Secure Boot and Trusted Boot, the Windows Security app, encryption, security baselines, and Defender, which we will discuss in the following sections.

Introducing Secure Boot and Trusted Boot

Secure Boot and Trusted Boot work together to provide OS-level protection of a Windows device during startup, preventing the loading of malware and corrupted components.

The initial boot-up protection is carried out by Secure Boot. The firmware is verified that it is digitally signed, and then all code that runs before the OS is checked by Secure Boot.

The digital signature of the OS bootloader is then checked to ensure the Secure Boot policy will trust it and that there has been no tampering.

Trusted Boot then picks up the process. The digital signal of the Windows kernel is verified...

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