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Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection

You're reading from Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246345

Pages 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Marius Sandbu

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Ransomware Basics

2. Chapter 1: Ransomware Attack Vectors and the Threat Landscape

3. Chapter 2: Building a Secure Foundation

4. Part 2:Protect and Detect

5. Chapter 3: Security Monitoring Using Microsoft Sentinel and Defender

6. Chapter 4: Ransomware Countermeasures – Windows Endpoints, Identity, and SaaS

7. Chapter 5: Ransomware Countermeasures – Microsoft Azure Workloads

8. Chapter 6: Ransomware Countermeasures – Networking and Zero-Trust Access

9. Chapter 7: Protecting Information Using Azure Information Protection and Data Protection

10. Part 3:Assume Breach

11. Chapter 8: Ransomware Forensics

12. Chapter 9: Monitoring the Threat Landscape

13. Chapter 10: Best Practices for Protecting Windows from Ransomware Attacks

14. Index

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Authors (1)

Marius Sandbu

Marius Sandbu is a Cloud Evangelist and architect working at Sopra Steria in Norway with over 17 years in the IT industry. Marius has a wide range of technical experience across different technologies such as identity, networking, virtualization, endpoint management, infrastructure, and with a special focus on the public cloud. He is an avid blogger, co-hosts the CloudFirst Podcast, and is also an international speaker at events such as Microsoft Ignite and Citrix Synergy. He has previously worked at TietoEVRY where he was the technical lead for the Public Cloud unit and has also worked at the University of Oslo as a system administrator and at Microsoft as a Technical Advisor.

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