Microsoft Windows security. Practical basis

Microsoft Windows security. Practical basics are a must-read for everyone who needs a practical guide to the security mechanisms of Windows Server 2003! The authors focused on Windows security as well as authentication and authorization services. Various authentication methods have been discussed, including Kerberos and NTLM authentication protocols, SSO solutions for Windows, and integration of authentication for Windows and UNIX platforms. Thanks to this book, the Reader will be able to use the operating system security infrastructure to build a safer IT network.

The book contains:

everything you need to explore the infrastructure and fundamentals of Windows security, including security authorities and supervisors, supervisor IDs and credentials, and trust relationships;
clearly laid out security rules, which should be remembered by architects designing infrastructure based on the Windows Server 2003 operating system;
discussion of administrative authorization and delegation in Windows and Active Directory
Detailed and comprehensive discussion of quite complex, but important, issues related to the general security of Active Directory and Windows makes this book a must-read for administrators of Active Directory and Windows. This diligence of Jan and Guido is not surprising, since both of them have proved in the past that they are not only passionate about Active Directory and Windows security, but also pay a lot of attention to the details.
(Khushru Irani, Active Directory security programmer, Microsoft)

There are twenty different books from which one can find out what a SID is and how to put a group on the Active Directory ACL. If this knowledge of Windows security is enough for you, then buy one of them. But if you want to understand Windows security, if you want to know how they work and why, then you have to buy this book. Is second to none.
(Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO, Netpro)

Securing computer systems is a very important topic for IT administrators and managers. In this book, we find a lot of detailed theoretical and practical information about the interesting aspects of Windows security. This is an excellent source of knowledge, which I will reach more than once [...].
(Todd Allen, head of the Heidelberg Active Directory team)