Hardening Windows Systems
Published on 16. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-0-07-225354-2 (ISBN)
Description
"The definitive tool to learn what's proper for Microsoft Windows systems. Roberta's excellent guidance will easily help you build secure, resiliant systems." --Steve Riley, Security Business and Technology Unit, Windows Division, Microsoft Corporation
Take a proactive approach to network security by hardening your Windows systems against attacks before they occur. Written by security evangelist Roberta Bragg, this hands-on resource provides concrete steps you can take immediately as well as ongoing actions to ensure long-term security. Whether you have one Windows server or one hundred, you'll get complete details on how to systematically harden your network from the ground up, as well as strategies for getting company-wide support for your security plan. With coverage of Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP and Windows Server 2003, this book is an essential security tool for on-the-job IT professionals.
Features a four-part hardening methodology:
Do This Now!--Checklist of immediate steps to take to lockdown your system from further attackTake It From The Top--Systematic approach to hardening your enterprise from the top down, focusing on authentication, access controls, borders, logical security boundaries, communications, storage, and administrative authorityOnce Is Never Enough!--Ongoing monitoring and assessment plan to keep your network secure, including patch management and auditingHow to Succeed At Hardening Your Windows Systems--Strategies for getting budget approval, management buy-in, and employee cooperation for your security program
Roberta Bragg, CISSP, MCSE: Security, Security+, co-author of Network Security: The Complete Reference, instructor, and consultant, focuses on how to proactively deploy proven security principles to defend Windows systems from possible attack. Roberta is the Security Advisor columnist for MCP magazine, the Security Expert for searchWin2000.com, and writes for the Security Watch newsletter. Roberta is the series editor of McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Hardening security series.
Take a proactive approach to network security by hardening your Windows systems against attacks before they occur. Written by security evangelist Roberta Bragg, this hands-on resource provides concrete steps you can take immediately as well as ongoing actions to ensure long-term security. Whether you have one Windows server or one hundred, you'll get complete details on how to systematically harden your network from the ground up, as well as strategies for getting company-wide support for your security plan. With coverage of Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/2000/XP and Windows Server 2003, this book is an essential security tool for on-the-job IT professionals.
Features a four-part hardening methodology:
Do This Now!--Checklist of immediate steps to take to lockdown your system from further attackTake It From The Top--Systematic approach to hardening your enterprise from the top down, focusing on authentication, access controls, borders, logical security boundaries, communications, storage, and administrative authorityOnce Is Never Enough!--Ongoing monitoring and assessment plan to keep your network secure, including patch management and auditingHow to Succeed At Hardening Your Windows Systems--Strategies for getting budget approval, management buy-in, and employee cooperation for your security program
Roberta Bragg, CISSP, MCSE: Security, Security+, co-author of Network Security: The Complete Reference, instructor, and consultant, focuses on how to proactively deploy proven security principles to defend Windows systems from possible attack. Roberta is the Security Advisor columnist for MCP magazine, the Security Expert for searchWin2000.com, and writes for the Security Watch newsletter. Roberta is the series editor of McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Hardening security series.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
898 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-225354-2 (9780072253542)
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Roberta Bragg (Grain Valley, MO) has been a "Security Advisor" columnist for MCP magazine for 5 years, is a "Security Expert" for searchWin2000.com, and writes for the Securitywatch newsletter, which has more than 55,000 subscribers. Roberta designed, planned, produced and participated in the first Windows Security Summit, held in Seattle, WA in 2002. Also in 2002 at TechMentor-San Diego, Roberta gave the first production of Security Academy three-day hands-on secure network-building workshop and was subsequently scheduled for 5 repeat presentations in 2003. Sept/Oct 2002 Roberta was an instructor for 4 sessions of SANS Gold Standard Windows 2000 Training. Roberta has participated in numerous security audits, is a Security Evangelist traveling all over the world consulting, assessing and training on network and Windows security. Roberta has served as adjunct faculty at Seattle Pacific University and the Johnson County Community College teaching courses on Windows 2000 Security Design and Network Security Design. Roberta is the lead author of McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Network Security: The Complete Reference, and the upcoming MCSE 70-298 Designing Windows Server 2003 Security, and Windows Server 2003 Security Administrators Companion by Microsoft Press. She has written on SQL Server 2000, CISSP and Windows Security for QUE and New Riders.
Content
Part I: Do This Now!Chapter 1. An Immediate Call to Action Chapter 2. Harden AuthenticationChapter 3. Harden Physical Network InfrastructureChapter 4. Harden Logical Network InfrastructureChapter 5. Harden Network Infrastructure Computer RolesChapter 6. Harden Active DirectoryChapter 7. Harden Administrative Authority and PracticeChapter 8. Harden Servers and Client Computers by RoleChapter 9. Hardening Applications Access and Use Chapter 10. Hardening Data AccessChapter 11. Hardening CommunicationsChapter 12. Hardening Windows using PKI and Hardening PKIPart II: Once is Never EnoughChapter 13. Security LifecyclePart III: How to Succeed at Hardening Windows NetworksChapter 14. Hardening WetwareAppendix 1. GlossaryAppendix 2. Resources: Names and Locations of Top 20 Windows Security Documents/Downloads.