Introduction
Explore foundational Windows security concepts including the roles of user accounts, domain versus local user management, and protections against tools like Mimikatz that target Windows passwords. Understand how these basics help safeguard Windows systems.
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Windows is common
Odds are most of the computers where you work run Windows. So let’s take a look at some security advice that’s specific to Windows. Most of the advice in this chapter echoes more general advice from previous chapters, but we’ll see a couple of Windows-specific applications of that advice. We’ll also take a look at Mimikatz, a widely used tool for stealing Windows passwords, as well as some defenses against it.
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