Chapter 10: Keeping Your Windows Server Secure

Throughout this chapter, you will learn about the best practices and tools that you can use to keep your Windows server secure. As mentioned in Chapter 9, Keeping Your Windows Client Secure, this chapter will cover the core of what this book is about but for your Windows servers. Directly securing and hardening your Windows server OSes where your data, services, and applications live is a very important task. A breach of a server could lead to significant damage to your organization.

Your Windows servers serve as the core of your data and the applications for your users and customers. Protecting them requires well-defined standards and ongoing maintenance to ensure they stay protected. With Windows ...

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