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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
Languages
Author (1):
Marius Sandbu Marius Sandbu
Profile icon Marius Sandbu
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Providing users with secure access to services

In most cases, our end users have some form of remote access to the infrastructure via certain services, such as Always On VPN. This ensures that their endpoints can communicate with fileservers, print servers, Active Directory, and other network protocols, such as TCP/UDP for the different applications that require it.

Now the reason for using Always On VPN or another third-party service is that it provides a similar experience to being at the office for the end user. This allows them to log in on their machine and be automatically connected to the infrastructure via a VPN tunnel, providing a seamless user experience.

Many of these VPN services also provide Network Access Control (NAC) capabilities, which check the health of a device before it is allowed to authenticate or send traffic across the VPN tunnel.

However, in most cases, these checks can be quite limited, and secondly, once the VPN tunnel is active, the endpoint is...

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