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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
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered security operations and reviewed the tools and technologies available from Microsoft that offer enterprise-class protection. We began the chapter with an introduction to the SOC and XDR and the importance of both in an enterprise. We then introduced the M365 Defender portal with an overview of the available features.

Next, we reviewed MDE before providing an overview of Microsoft Sentinel and MDCA, Microsoft's version of a CASB. Other tools and features reviewed in this chapter included MDI and the different data protection tools available from Microsoft (Purview Information Protection, DLP, and WIP). We then concluded the chapter with an overview of BCP, DRP, and CIRP.

In Chapter 15, Testing and Auditing, we will review validating controls to ensure that the security measures that have been agreed upon are in place. We will look at Microsoft's on-demand assessments and then review vulnerability scanning and testing to ensure that...

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