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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Chapter 10: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure

Throughout this chapter, you will learn about the best practices and tools that you can use to keep your Windows server secure. As mentioned in Chapter 9, Keeping Your Windows Client Secure, this chapter will cover the core of what this book is about but for your Windows servers. Directly securing and hardening your Windows server OSes where your data, services, and applications live is a very important task. A breach of a server could lead to significant damage to your organization.

Your Windows servers serve as the core of your data and the applications for your users and customers. Protecting them requires well-defined standards and ongoing maintenance to ensure they stay protected. With Windows server, there are many built-in roles and features that allow additional functionality for your environment. Ensuring these are hardened is also just as critical. As a standard rule, none of your servers should be web-facing unless they are...