
Windows Security Internals
A Deep Dive into Windows Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing
James Forshaw(Author)
No Starch Press
Published on 30. April 2024
608 pages
978-1-7185-0199-7 (ISBN)
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Power up your Windows security skills with expert guidance, in-depth technical insights, and dozens of real-world vulnerability examples from Google Project Zero's most renowned researcher!
Learn core components of the system in greater depth than ever before, and gain hands-on experience probing advanced Microsoft security systems with the added benefit of PowerShell scripts.
Windows Security Internals is a must-have for anyone needing to understand the Windows operating system's low-level implementations, whether to discover new vulnerabilities or protect against known ones. Developers, devops, and security researchers will all find unparalleled insight into the operating system's key elements and weaknesses, surpassing even Microsoft's official documentation.
Author James Forshaw teaches through meticulously crafted PowerShell examples that can be experimented with and modified, covering everything from basic resource security analysis to advanced techniques like using network authentication. The examples will help you actively test and manipulate system behaviors, learn how Windows secures files and the registry, re-create from scratch how the system grants access to a resource, learn how Windows implements authentication both locally and over a network, and much more.
You'll also explore a wide range of topics, such as:
- Windows security architecture, including both the kernel and user-mode applications
- The Windows Security Reference Monitor (SRM), including access tokens, querying and setting a resource's security descriptor, and access checking and auditing
- Interactive Windows authentication and credential storage in the Security Account Manager (SAM) and Active Directory
- Mechanisms of network authentication protocols, including NTLM and Kerberos
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Reflowable
File size
11,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-7185-0199-7 (9781718501997)
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James Forshaw
Windows Security Internals
A Deep Dive into Windows Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing
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04/2024
No Starch Press
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James Forshaw is a renowned computer security expert on Google's Project Zero team. In his more than 20 years of experience analyzing and exploiting security issues in Microsoft Windows and other products, he has discovered hundreds of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft platforms. Others frequently cite his research, which he presents in blogs, on the world stage, or through novel tooling, and he has inspired numerous researchers in the industry. When not breaking the security of other products, James works as a defender, advising teams on their security design and improving the Chromium Windows sandbox to secure billions of users worldwide. He's also the author of Attacking Network Protocols (No Starch Press)
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