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Professional Windows Desktop and Server Hardening View Larger Image | Roger A. Grimes
Wrox Press, Paperback, Published April 2006, 384 pages, ISBN 0764599909 | List Price: $39.99
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- Shows how to improve Windows desktop and server security by configuring
default security before installing off-the-shelf security products
- Educates readers about the most significant security threats, building the
ultimate defense, operating system hardening, application security, and automating
security
- As a security consultant, the author has an impressive record-of his clients,
not one who followed his recommendations has suffered a virus, worm, Trojan,
or successful hacker attack in the past five years
- The companion Web site includes author-created custom security templates
and group policies that will automate advice given in the book
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: The Basics in Depth.
Chapter 1: Windows Attacks.
Chapter 2: Conventional and Unconventional Defenses.
Chapter 3: NTFS Permissions 101.
Part II: OS Hardening.
Chapter 4: Preventing Password Crackers.
Chapter 5: Protecting High-Risk Files.
Chapter 6: Protecting High-Risk Registry Entries.
Chapter 7: Tightening Services.
Chapter 8: Using IPSec.
Part III: Application Security.
Chapter 9: Stopping Unauthorized Execution.
Chapter 10: Securing Internet Explorer.
Chapter 11: Protecting E-mail.
Chapter 12: IIS Security.
Chapter 13: Using Encrypting File System.
Part IV: Automating Security.
Chapter 14: Group Policy Explained.
Chapter 15: Designing a Secure Active Directory Infrastructure.
Book Summary.
Index.
About the Author
Roger A. Grimes (CPA, CISSP, MCSE: Security, MVP, CEH, CHFI, TICSA) is a 20-year
computer security consultant, writer, and teacher. He has written over a 150
national magazine articles on computer security, and this is his fifth book
on Microsoft Windows security. He has consulted for many of the world’s
best-known enterprises (including McAfee, Microsoft, Verisign, and IBM), multiple
universities, cities and school systems, plus every branch of the U.S. armed
forces. He is currently a highly rated instructor teaching Windows and Linux
security in Foundstone’s Ultimate Hacking classes. He has presented at
many of the industry’s largest conferences, including MCP TechMentor, Windows
Connections, and SANS. He was a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine,
and is the security columnist for InfoWorld magazine. He has written several
advanced security courses, including for Microsoft. He is a three-year recipient
of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, and was the creator
and team leader of the successful www.hackiis6.com contest.
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