If you’re responsible for protecting Windows systems, firewalls and anti-virus aren’t enough. You also need to master incident response, recovery, and auditing. Leading Windows security expert and instructor Harlan Carvey offers a start-to-finish guide to the subject: everything administrators must know to recognize and respond to virtually any attack.

Drawing on his widely acclaimed course, Carvey uses real-world examples to cover every significant incident response, recovery, and forensics technique. He delivers a complete incident response toolset that combines today’s best open source and freeware tools, his own exclusive software and scripts, and step-by-step instructions for using them. This book’s tools and techniques apply to every current and professional version of Windows: NT, 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003. Coverage includes:

• Developing a practical methodology for responding to potential attacks
• Preparing your systems to prevent and detect incidents
• Recognizing the signatures of an attack—in time to act
• Uncovering attacks that evade detection by Event Viewer, Task Manager, and other Windows GUI tools
• Using the Forensic Server Project to automate data collection during live investigations
• Analyzing live forensics data in order to determine what occurred

Windows XP’s best-kept secrets–revealed! Master the full range of powerful, secure–and hidden–Internet communication tools within XP. Exchange music, video, or any type of file securely, make free calls to anyone in the world, and protect your privacy with help from this one-of-a-kind resource.

This new titles is an updated edition of Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Graphical API, which received rave reviews from the industry. The new edition retains its reference organization and distinctive help file on the CD, as well as including Windows 2000 changes.

Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional is the de facto Windows XP Pro reference and one you shouldn’t fire up your Windows XP computer without! Get the book that PC World magazine reviewer Steve Bass says if he had to choose just one book to help him master Windows XP, “this would be the one.”
* Windows Peace Finally, longtime Windows NT/2000 users who have pined for a more usable operating system - such as Windows 95/98/Me - without sacrificing the stability and networking features they’ve come to expect in NT/2000 can pine no more. Windows XP Professional unites the two operating system camps.
* Your NT upgrade has finally arrived - Looking to upgrade from your aging Windows NT environment? Many corporations eschewed Windows 2000 as it was well known that 2000 (NT 5, for all intents and purposes) was a brief stop for Microsoft, which was already hard at work on XP. If you are viewing 2000 as the XP beta, you can be assured that it’s now time-tested and ready to rock!
* Written for humans by humans! While many authors spend time trying to overwhelm you with their technical expertise, Bob and Brian drive right to the point with the clear, natural language that you have come to love and expect.
* Hands on, roll-up-your-shirtsleeves advice! Bob and Brian don’t just tell you how to use the Windows features and point you elsewhere for networking or hardware advice. Instead, the help you choose, install and configure hardware and software that work in concert with Windows.
* CD-ROM Includes: 45 minutes of video from Brainsville. This unique video package is a new, innovative feature in computer books and video courseware, which brings Bob and Brian right to your desktop. This personal seminar flattens your learning curve, introduces you to Windows XP and demonstrates how to use it while you watch. Topics covered range from mastering the new XP user interface to setting up and fine-tuning your local area network.

Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition is the only book you need to help you get your Windows XP Home system configured and optimized for maximum performance.
* 95/98/Me and NT/2000 users unite! With the long-awaited release of Windows XP, Windows 95/98, and Me will become obsolete, along with all that old code and problematic DOS legacy support, to be replaced by Windows XP. Based on the NT kernel, XP finally marries the two worlds in a stable, non-crashing operating system for the rest of us.
* Written for humans by humans! While many authors spend time trying to overwhelm you with their technical expertise, Bob and Brian drive right to the point with the clear, natural language that you have come to love and expect.
* Hands on, roll-up-your-shirtsleeves advice! Bob and Brian don’t just tell you how to use the Windows features and point you elsewhere for networking or hardware advice. Instead, the help you choose, install and configure hardware and software that work in concert with Windows.
* Build Your Own Network at Home!Turn two PCs and a bail of cable into the ultimate network for high-powered gaming, sharing files, and backing up essential data! Use XP’s simple and reliable networking features to network your home for gameplay, sharing files and printers, as well as sharing broadband Internet connections.
* CD-ROM Includes: 45 minutes of video from Brainsville. This unique video package is a new, innovative feature in computer books and video courseware, which brings Bob and Brian right to your desktop. This personal seminar flattens your learning curve, introduces you to Windows XP and demonstrates how to use it while you watch. Topics covered range from mastering the new XP user interface to setting up and fine-tuning your local area network.

The Only Book for the Leading Winternals Tools Used in Microsoft Networks!

Winternals first came to my rescue in November of 1999. It was then that I purchased my Winternals Administrator’s Pak. It contained BlueSave Version 1.01, ERD Commander Professional Version 1.06, Monitoring Tools (Filemon and Regmon) Enterprise Editions Version 1.0, NTFSDOS Professional Version 3.03, NTRecover Version 1.0, and Remote Recover Version 1.01. We had a Windows NT 4 server in the dead zone. I spent a few hours reading over the ERD and Remote Recover user guides, created a “client floppy,” and began my quest. Thank goodness that version of ERD had the ability to access NT-defined fault-tolerant drives. Within a few hours we had recovered the system and were back up and running. With that success, I thought back on hundreds of earlier incidents that made me wish I had purchased Winternals sooner. We have come a long way since then; the Winternals team has improved upon and added many tools and features to the Administrator’s Pak utilities. One thing remains constant—in the Microsoft administrator’s world, Winternals is a lifesaver. –from the Foreword by Dave Kleiman

Presents the details of designing and implementing certificate-based security solutions for PKI-enabled applications. Softcover.

Why should new versions of mission-critical technologies mean starting from scratch? If you already know how to use Microsoft Windows Server 2000, leverage those skills to quickly become an expert on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide skips the basics and moves straight to what’s new and what’s changed. The result? You save time and money while preparing yourself for the next generation of Microsoft’s server operating system!

Inside you will find answers to such questions as:

• How do you write effective logon scripts? Chapter 11
• How do you write scripts that query and modify user and group information? Chapter 16
• How can you query the IP addresses from multiple network adapters in multiple remote computers? Chapter 19
• How can you design, write, run, test, and debug your own administrative Web pages? Chapter 24
• How can you reuse code between various scripts? Chapter 25

How to Cheat at Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure follows Syngress’ proven “How to Cheat” methodology, which is specfically designed to provide overworked and stressed out System Administrators and “part-time” Sys Admins an easy-to read and implement guide to the most consise information needed to complete a task. The book will start off by teaching readers to create the conceptual design of their Active Directory infrastructure by gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements. Next, readers will create the logical design for an Active Directory infrastructure. Here the book starts to drill deeper and foxu on aspects such as group policy design. FInally, readers will learn to create the physical design for an active directory and network Infrastructure including DNS server placement; DC and GC placements and Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role placement.