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Mastering Windows Security and Hardening - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236544
Pages 816 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Mark Dunkerley Mark Dunkerley
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Matt Tumbarello Matt Tumbarello
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started and Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Windows Security 3. Chapter 2: Building a Baseline 4. Chapter 3: Hardware and Virtualization 5. Chapter 4: Networking Fundamentals for Hardening Windows 6. Chapter 5: Identity and Access Management 7. Part 2: Applying Security and Hardening
8. Chapter 6: Administration and Policy Management 9. Chapter 7: Deploying Windows Securely 10. Chapter 8: Keeping Your Windows Client Secure 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Hardening for Windows Clients 12. Chapter 10: Mitigating Common Attack Vectors 13. Chapter 11: Server Infrastructure Management 14. Chapter 12: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure 15. Part 3: Protecting, Detecting, and Responding for Windows Environments
16. Chapter 13: Security Monitoring and Reporting 17. Chapter 14: Security Operations 18. Chapter 15: Testing and Auditing 19. Chapter 16: Top 10 Recommendations and the Future 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Monitoring hybrid environments with MDI

MDI is a cloud security service that's used to analyze signals and events from AD domain environments to identify threats, compromised identities, and attacker activities inside the network. The solution provides incident tracking that the SOC can use to analyze timelines of security events, investigate alerts and user activities, and act on identified threats. The following list includes ways that MDI helps to identify suspicious activities inside your network:

  • Monitors user activities and creates a behavioral profile about each user. Then, through intelligence, it creates alerts based on anomalies in the observed behavioral patterns. The heuristics used to build the user profile include details about permissions, group memberships, and account activities.
  • Identifies attempts to enumerate information about a domain environment, such as queries for users, groups, and resources typically seen during reconnaissance activities.
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