CyberOps Windows Hardening: Windows Workstation Hardening Best Practices
Cybersecurity
| Beginner
- 15 videos | 1h 29m 23s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
If successful in exploiting your Windows workstations, hackers could move laterally across the network to compromise other assets like your servers and databases, which contain sensitive information. In this course, you'll learn how to protect your Windows workstations by following standard operating system hardening procedures to reduce the attack surface and help prevent a security compromise. You'll learn how to secure a workstation by implementing hardening procedures related to the BIOS/UEFI. You'll carry out user account and group membership security strategies. You'll practice reducing unneeded software, patching the system, configuring user rights, and setting up auditing. Additionally, you'll work with full disk encryption, antivirus methods, firewall software, and security templates. To carry out this work, you'll utilize BitLocker, AppLocker, and Windows Defender.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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discover the key concepts covered in this courselist common BIOS/UEFI settings used to help secure a Windows systemdemonstrate how to harden user accounts on a Windows workstationdemonstrate how to restrict the software that can run on a Windows workstation using an AppLocker policydemonstrate how to uninstall unneeded Windows components and harden Windows services on a Windows workstationillustrate the importance of patching a Windows systemdemonstrate how to create a password policy on a Windows workstation to prevent dictionary attacksdemonstrate how to create an account lockout policy on a Windows workstation to prevent brute force attacks
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demonstrate how to manipulate Windows user rightsdemonstrate how to implement full disk encryption with BitLockerdemonstrate how to use BitLocker To Go to encrypt removable mediademonstrate the configuration of Windows Defender as antimalwaredemonstrate how to configure auditing on a Windows workstationdemonstrate the use of security templates on a Windows systemsummarize the key concepts covered in this course
IN THIS COURSE
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1.Course Overview1m 48sUP NEXT
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2.BIOS/UEFI Settings to Improve Workstation Security6m 13s
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3.Hardening User Accounts on a Windows Workstation3m 36s
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4.Implementing AppLocker Policies on Windows5m 54s
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5.Hardening Windows Services and Removing Software9m 47s
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6.Patching Windows Systems6m 6s
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7.Implementing a Windows Workstation Password Policy5m 12s
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8.Implementing a Windows Account Lockout Policy6m 42s
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9.Configuring Windows User Rights5m 8s
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10.Implementing Full Disk Encryption with BitLocker7m 17s
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11.Encrypting USB Drives with BitLocker To Go4m 7s
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12.Using Windows Defender as an Antivirus Tool8m 43s
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13.Configuring Auditing on a Windows Workstation4m 54s
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14.Using Security Templates on a Windows Workstation12m 31s
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15.Course Summary1m 25s
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