Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender. Implement Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365 and respond to threats

Ru Campbell, Viktor Hedberg, Heike Ritter

This book will help you get up and running with Microsoft 365 Defender and help you use the whole suite effectively.You’ll start with a quick overview of cybersecurity risks that modern organizations face, such as ransomware and APT attacks, how Microsoft is making massive investments in security today, and gain an understanding of how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by diving deep into configurations and their architecture.As you progress, you’ll learn how to configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and onboard and manage macOS, Android, and Linux MDE devices for effective solutions. You’ll also learn how to deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity and explore its different deployment methods that can protect your hybrid identity platform, as well as how to configure Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Cloud Apps, and manage KQL queries for advanced hunting with ease. Toward the end, you’ll find out how M365D can be integrated with Sentinel and how to use APIs for incident response.By the end of this book, you will have a deep understanding of Microsoft 365 Defender, and how to protect and respond to security threats.

Mastering Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Streamline Office 365 security with expert tips for setup, automation, and advanced threat hunting

Samuel Soto

Navigate the security Wild West with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, your shield against the complex and rapidly evolving cyber threats. Written by a cybersecurity veteran with 25 years of experience, including combating nation-state adversaries and organized cybercrime gangs, this book offers unparalleled insights into modern digital security challenges by helping you secure your organization's email and communication systems and promoting a safer digital environment by staying ahead of evolving threats and fostering user awareness.This book introduces you to a myriad of security threats and challenges organizations encounter and delves into the day-to-day use of Defender for Office 365, offering insights for proactively managing security threats, investigating alerts, and effective remediation. You’ll explore advanced strategies such as leveraging threat intelligence to reduce false alerts, customizing reports, conducting attack simulation, and automating investigation and remediation. To ensure complete protection, you’ll learn to integrate Defender for Office 365 with other security tools and APIs.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of Defender for Office 365 and its crucial role in fortifying your organization's cybersecurity posture.

Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Deploy and manage Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 on both physical and cloud PCs

Christiaan Brinkhoff, Per Larsen, Ken Pan, Scott Manchester

Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions can simplify the management layer of your environment remarkably if you take the time to understand and implement them. With this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know to make the shift to Modern Workplace, running Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows 365.Mastering Microsoft Endpoint Manager explains various concepts in detail to give you the clarity to plan how to use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) and eliminate potential migration challenges beforehand. You'll get to grips with using new services such as Windows 365 Cloud PC, Windows Autopilot, profile management, monitoring and analytics, and Universal Print. The book will take you through the latest features and new Microsoft cloud services to help you to get to grips with the fundamentals of MEM and understand which services you can manage. Whether you are talking about physical or cloud endpoints—it’s all covered.By the end of the book, you'll be able to set up MEM and use it to run Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows 365 efficiently.

Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization. Discover the secrets to extending and customizing Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway with this book and

Erez Ben-Ari, Rainier Amara, Erez Y Ben

While UAG is built to integrate with many environments and publish dozens of application types, many organizations require a certain level of customization to meet their needs.With this book in hand, you will be equipped to deal with these types of customization scenarios, and you will be confident in using such workarounds without hassle and trial and error.Written by some of the leading experts on UAG, Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization covers the most complex and challenging options for customizing UAG in a way that is friendly and easy to follow. It walks you through various customization tasks, including explanations and code samples, as well as creative ideas for troubleshooting your work.Until now, only a few of the extensions to UAG's services have been publicly available, and most were only known to a select few. Now, this can include you!Throughout this book, you will tackle how to change the system's look-and-feel, deal with advanced authentication schemes and write special functions that need to be executed as part of the client interaction. With Mastering Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010 Customization, you too can learn how to customize various aspects of UAG's functionality to enhance your organization or customers' experience.

Mastering Microsoft Intune. Deploy Windows 11, Windows 365 via Microsoft Intune, Copilot and advance management via Intune Suite - Second Edition

Christiaan Brinkhoff, Per Larsen, Steve Dispensa, Scott Manchester

Microsoft Intune is the leading management solution to manage your Windows environment from every angle. While it offers powerful capabilities to simplify management and migration processes, many organizations struggle with implementation and adoption. This book will provide you with all the information you need to successfully transition to Microsoft Intune.Written by Microsoft experts Christiaan Brinkhoff and Per Larsen, Mastering Microsoft Intune, Second Edition delivers in-depth insights into using Microsoft Intune efficiently. You'll learn how management and AI come together with the latest Intune Suite capabilities to secure your endpoints and maximize security for both physical and Cloud PCs.This book will help you deploying Windows 11 and Windows 365, implementing Windows Autopilot, managing applications, configuring advanced policies, and leveraging new innovations like Windows Copilot and Security Copilot. With their decades of field experience, you'll master everything from identity and security management to monitoring and analytics, including Universal Print via the Cloud.By the end of this book, you'll be able to set up Intune and use it to run Windows 11 and Windows 365 efficiently with the latest innovations such as Intune Suite and AI (Copilot) from Microsoft included!

Mastering Mobile Forensics. Develop the capacity to dig deeper into mobile device data acquisition

Soufiane Tahiri

Mobile forensics presents a real challenge to the forensic community due to the fast and unstoppable changes in technology. This book aims to provide the forensic community an in-depth insight into mobile forensic techniques when it comes to deal with recent smartphones operating systemsStarting with a brief overview of forensic strategies and investigation procedures, you will understand the concepts of file carving, GPS analysis, and string analyzing. You will also see the difference between encryption, encoding, and hashing methods and get to grips with the fundamentals of reverse code engineering. Next, the book will walk you through the iOS, Android and Windows Phone architectures and filesystem, followed by showing you various forensic approaches and data gathering techniques. You will also explore advanced forensic techniques and find out how to deal with third-applications using case studies. The book will help you master data acquisition on Windows Phone 8. By the end of this book, you will be acquainted with best practices and the different models used in mobile forensics.

Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing. Master the art of conducting modern pen testing attacks and techniques on your web application before the hacker does!

Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch

Web penetration testing is a growing, fast-moving, and absolutely critical field in information security. This book executes modern web application attacks and utilises cutting-edge hacking techniques with an enhanced knowledge of web application security.We will cover web hacking techniques so you can explore the attack vectors during penetration tests. The book encompasses the latest technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Web API testing methodologies and XML vectors used by hackers. Some lesser discussed attack vectors such as RPO (relative path overwrite), DOM clobbering, PHP Object Injection and etc. has been covered in this book.We'll explain various old school techniques in depth such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection through the ever-dependable SQLMap and reconnaissance. Websites nowadays provide APIs to allow integration with third party applications, thereby exposing a lot of attack surface, we cover testing of these APIs using real-life examples. This pragmatic guide will be a great benefit and will help you prepare fully secure applications.

Mastering NetScaler VPX. Learn how to deploy and configure all the available Citrix NetScaler features with the best practices and techniques you need to know

Rick Roetenberg, Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul

Citrix NetScaler is one of the best Application Delivery Controller products in the world. The Application Delivery Controllers are commonly used for load balancing purposes, to optimize traffic, and to perform extra security settings.This book will give you an insight into all the available features that the Citrix NetScaler appliance has to offer. The book will start with the commonly used NetScaler VPX features, such as load balancing and NetScaler Gateway functionality. Next, we cover features such as Responder, Rewrite, and the AppExpert templates, and how to configure these features. After that, you will learn more about the other available Citrix technologies that can interact with Citrix NetScaler. We also cover troubleshooting, optimizing traffic, caching, performing protection using Application Firewall, and denying HTTP DDoS attacks for web services.Finally, we will demonstrate the different configuration principles real-world Citrix NetScaler deployment scenarios.