Microsoft® Windows server 2008 security resource kit
By: Jesper M Johansson, with the Microsoft Security Team.
Contributors: Microsoft Security Team.
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Redmond, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780735625044
Subjects: Microsoft Windows server.; Computer security.; Computer networks -- Security measures.; Firewalls (Computer security); Windows (Computer programs)
Other titles: Security resource kit; Windows server 2008; Windows server 2008 security
Description: Get the definitive reference for planning and implementing security features in Windows Server 2008 with expert insights from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and the Windows Server Security Team at Microsoft. This official Microsoft book delivers technical information and tools you need to help protect your Windows® based clients, server roles, networks, and Internet services. The book explains how to plan and implement comprehensive security with special emphasis on new Windows security tools, security objects, security services, user authentication and access control, network security, application security, Windows firewall, active directory® security, group policy, auditing, and patch management. The book also provides best practices based on real-world implementations and you get must have tools, scripts, templates, and other key job aids, and other resources CD.
Notes: "Your definitive security resource for WIndows Server 2008--straight from the experts"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System requirements: 1 GHz 32  (x86) or 64-bit processor; depending on the minimum requirements of the operating system installed; 1 GB of system memory (depending on the minimum requirements of the operating system ; a hard disk  with at least 1 GB of available space; video output; CD-ROM drive; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista ; Windows PowerShell 1.x.
Table of contents: value: Windows security fundamentals: Subjects, users, and other actors; value: Authenticators and authentication protocols; value: Objects: the stuff you want; value: Understanding user account control (UAC); value: Firewall and network access protection; value: Services; value: Group policy; value: Auditing.  Implementing identity and access (IDA) control using active directory: Designing active directory domain services for security; value: Implementing active directory certificate services. Common security scenarios: Securing server roles; value: Patch management; value: Securing the network; value: Securing the branch office; value: Small business considerations; value: Securing server applications; value: Index.