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Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators - Second Edition

By : Manuel Singer, Jeff Stokes, Steve Miles, Thomas Lee, Richard Diver
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Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators - Second Edition

By: Manuel Singer, Jeff Stokes, Steve Miles, Thomas Lee, Richard Diver

Overview of this book

Windows 11 comes with a plethora of new security measures, customizability, and accessibility features that can help your organization run more smoothly. But, without a proper introduction to this new version of Windows, it’s easy to miss the most important improvements, along with configuration options that will make migrating to Windows 11 frictionless. Windows 11 for Enterprise Administrators helps you understand the installation process, configuration methods, deployment scenarios, and management strategies. You’ll delve into configuring Remote Server Administration Tools for remote Windows Server and Azure Active Directory management. This edition emphasizes PowerShell's role in automating administrative tasks, and its importance in Windows 11 and Windows Server management. It also provides comprehensive insights into Windows 11 updates, including Version 21H2 and 22H2, contrasting them with Windows 10, ensuring your knowledge stays current with the latest enhancements in the Windows ecosystem. By the end of this book, you'll be well-equipped with Windows 11's vital technologies and potentials, enabling you to adeptly oversee and implement these attributes within your company.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Chapter 9: Advanced Configurations

Defense in depth

When considering securing Windows 11 in our enterprises, we should take a defense-in-depth (DiD) approach. This means we should not rely on a single security layer solution.

Adopting a DiD strategy allows an organization to adopt a strong security posture and helps ensure that all systems, data, and users are better protected from threats and compromise. A DiD strategy means no single layer of protection or security service is solely responsible for protecting resources. Still, you can slow down an attack path by implementing many different types of defense at individual layers. It may successfully breach one defensive layer but be halted by subsequent protection layers, preventing the protected resource from being exposed. The following figure shows that DiD as a concept is nothing new as a strategy; it can be considered the medieval castle concept of protecting resources:

Figure 8.2 – Medieval castle defense approach

Figure 8.2 – Medieval castle defense approach

The medieval...