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Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246345

Pages 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

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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