HackNotes Windows Security Portable Reference: A must-have Resource for Critical Security Information [Paperback]

Secure Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP systems, and Windows Server 2003. The book explains how to follow reference matrixes of useful services for Windows and UNIX. Plus, you’ll learn best practices for trace routing and source address location.

HackNotes Windows Security Portable Reference gives you step-by-step details of intrusion tactics, tools, and actual techniques used by criminals to break into computer networks. Understand how the attacks work, then learn how to access and strengthen your Windows systems through a series of tested and trusted anti-hacking methods, bulletproof best practices, and system-level techniques. Use the unique Reference Center in the middle of the book to access key information, including common port numbers, system commands, reference links, the top security assessment and hacker tools, and more.

• Build secure environments using Windows upgrades, tools, and techniques
• Keep systems up-to-date and well patched
• Identify what to protect and guard against by learning hacking techniques
• Block initial entry and limit hacker handholds
• Deploy internal IP Security solutions with ease
• Use Encrypting File System for transparent storage security
• Learn best practices for defending both internal and Internet-facing Windows systems
• Secure IIS installations
• Keep unauthorized parties from accessing sensitive data
• Secure Windows desktops, servers, or entire Active Directory domains
• Review usage and security innovations of Windows Server 2003

Eric Schultze (Saint Paul, MN) is the Director of Research and Development for Shavlik Technologies. Mr. Schultze has been involved with information technology and security for the past ten years, with a majority of his time focused on assessing and securing Microsoft technologies and platforms. Prior to joining Shavlik Technologies, Eric was a Security Program Manager for Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Schultze is a frequent speaker at security conferences including Networld + Interop, Usenix, Black Hat, SANS, and MIS and was a faculty instructor for the Computer Security Institute. Mr. Schultze has also appeared on TV and in many publications including NBC, CNBC, Time, ComputerWorld, and The Standard. Mr. Schultze's prior employers include Foundstone, Inc., SecurityFocus.com, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, Bealls Inc., and Salomon Brothers. He was a contributing author to the first edition of Hacking Exposed and a technical reviewer of Hacking Exposed Windows 2000.