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A comprehensive guide to administering and protecting the latest Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 from the complex cyber threatsKey Features- Learn to protect your Windows environment using zero-trust and a multi-layered security approach- Implement security controls using Intune, Configuration Manager, Defender for Endpoint, and more- Understand how to onboard modern cyber-threat defense solutions for Windows clientsBook DescriptionAre you looking for the most current and effective ways to protect Windows-based systems from being compromised by intruders? This updated second edition is a detailed guide that helps you gain the expertise to implement efficient security measures and create robust defense solutions using modern technologies.The first part of the book covers security fundamentals with details around building and implementing baseline controls. As you advance, you'll learn how to effectively secure and harden your Windows-based systems through hardware, virtualization, networking, and identity and access management (IAM). The second section will cover administering security controls for Windows clients and servers with remote policy management using Intune, Configuration Manager, Group Policy, Defender for Endpoint, and other Microsoft 365 and Azure cloud security technologies. In the last section, you'll discover how to protect, detect, and respond with security monitoring, reporting, operations, testing, and auditing.By the end of this book, you'll have developed an understanding of the processes and tools involved in enforcing security controls and implementing zero-trust security principles to protect Windows systems.What you will learn- Build a multi-layered security approach using zero-trust concepts- Explore best practices to implement security baselines successfully- Get to grips with virtualization and networking to harden your devices- Discover the importance of identity and access management- Explore Windows device administration and remote management- Become an expert in hardening your Windows infrastructure- Audit, assess, and test to ensure controls are successfully applied and enforced- Monitor and report activities to stay on top of vulnerabilitiesWho this book is forIf you're a cybersecurity or technology professional, solutions architect, systems engineer, systems administrator, or anyone interested in learning how to secure the latest Windows-based systems, this book is for you. A basic understanding of Windows security concepts, Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows PowerShell, and Microsoft Azure will help you get the best out of this book.Table of Contents- Fundamentals of Windows Security- Building a Baseline- Hardware and Virtualization- Networking Fundamentals for Hardening Windows- Identity and Access Management- Administration and Policy Management- Deploying Windows Securely- Keeping Your Windows Client Secure- Advanced Hardening for Windows Clients- Mitigating Common Attack Vectors- Server Infrastructure Management- Keeping Your Windows Server Secure- Security Monitoring and Reporting- Security Operations- Testing and Auditing- Top 10 Recommendations and the Future

Build efficient data lakes that can scale to virtually unlimited size using AWS GlueKey Features:Learn to work with AWS Glue to overcome typical implementation challenges in data lakesCreate and manage serverless ETL pipelines that can scale to manage big dataWritten by AWS Glue community members, this practical guide shows you how to implement AWS Glue in no timeBook Description:Organizations these days have gravitated toward services such as AWS Glue that undertake undifferentiated heavy lifting and provide serverless Spark, enabling you to create and manage data lakes in a serverless fashion. This guide shows you how AWS Glue can be used to solve real-world problems along with helping you learn about data processing, data integration, and building data lakes.Beginning with AWS Glue basics, this book teaches you how to perform various aspects of data analysis such as ad hoc queries, data visualization, and real-time analysis using this service. It also provides a walk-through of CI/CD for AWS Glue and how to shift left on quality using automated regression tests. You'll find out how data security aspects such as access control, encryption, auditing, and networking are implemented, as well as getting to grips with useful techniques such as picking the right file format, compression, partitioning, and bucketing. As you advance, you'll discover AWS Glue features such as crawlers, Lake Formation, governed tables, lineage, DataBrew, Glue Studio, and custom connectors. The concluding chapters help you to understand various performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring options.By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to create, manage, troubleshoot, and deploy ETL pipelines using AWS Glue.What You Will Learn:Apply various AWS Glue features to manage and create data lakesUse Glue DataBrew and Glue Studio for data preparationOptimize data layout in cloud storage to accelerate analytics workloadsManage metadata including database, table, and schema definitionsSecure your data during access control, encryption, auditing, and networkingMonitor AWS Glue jobs to detect delays and loss of dataIntegrate Spark ML and SageMaker with AWS Glue to create machine learning modelsWho this book is for:This book is for ETL developers, data engineers, and data analysts who want to understand how AWS Glue can help you solve your business problems. Basic knowledge of AWS data services is assumed.

Enhance your applications' performance using best practices for benchmarking, application profiling, asynchronous programming, designing responsive UIs, gRPC communication, and distributed applicationsKey Features:- Make the best use of performance enhancements in C# 10.0 and .NET 6- Boost application performance by identifying hardware bottlenecks and common performance pitfalls- Get to grips with best practices and techniques for improving the scalability of distributed systemsBook Description:Writing high-performance code while building an application is crucial, and over the years, Microsoft has focused on delivering various performance-related improvements within the .NET ecosystem. This book will help you understand the aspects involved in designing responsive, resilient, and high-performance applications with the new version of C# and .NET.You will start by understanding the foundation of high-performance code and the latest performance-related improvements in C# 10.0 and .NET 6. Next, you'll learn how to use tracing and diagnostics to track down performance issues and the cause of memory leaks. The chapters that follow then show you how to enhance the performance of your networked applications and various ways to improve directory tasks, file tasks, and more. Later, you'll go on to improve data querying performance and write responsive user interfaces. You'll also discover how you can use cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure to build scalable distributed solutions. Finally, you'll explore various ways to process code synchronously, asynchronously, and in parallel to reduce the time it takes to process a series of tasks.By the end of this C# programming book, you'll have the confidence you need to build highly resilient, high-performance applications that meet your customer's demands.What You Will Learn:- Use correct types and collections to enhance application performance- Profile, benchmark, and identify performance issues with the codebase- Explore how to best perform queries on LINQ to improve an application's performance- Effectively utilize a number of CPUs and cores through asynchronous programming- Build responsive user interfaces with WinForms, WPF, MAUI, and WinUI- Benchmark ADO.NET, Entity Framework Core, and Dapper for data access- Implement CQRS and event sourcing and build and deploy microservicesWho this book is for:This book is for software engineers, professional software developers, performance engineers, and application profilers looking to improve the speed of their code or take their skills to the next level to gain a competitive advantage. You should be a proficient C# programmer who can already put the language to good use and is also comfortable using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022Table of Contents- Introducing C# 10.0 and .NET 6- Implementing C# Interoperability- Predefined Data Types and Memory Allocations- Memory Management- Application Profiling and Tracing- The .NET Collections- LINQ Performance- File and Stream I/O- Enhancing the Performance of Networked Applications- Setting Up Our Database Project- Benchmarking Relational Data Access Frameworks- Responsive User Interfaces- Distributed Systems- Multi-Threaded Programming- Parallel Programming- Asynchronous Programming