Santhosh Sivarajan - Getting Started with Windows Server Security

Jack Cobben is no stranger to the challenges enterprises can experience when managing large deployments of Windows systems and Citrix implementations, with over 13 years of systems management experience in his free time he writes for his own blog, www.jackcobben.nl, and is active on Citrix support forums. He loves to test new software and share his knowledge in any way he can. You can follow him on Twitter via @jackcobben.

Jack has reviewed several other books such as Citrix XenDesktop 7 Cookbook , Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.0 , Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x , and other titles for Packt Publishing.

A big thanks to my wife and twins for letting me have the time to review this book.

While he works for Citrix, Citrix didn't help with, or support, this book in any way or form.

Yuri Diogenes has a master's degree in cyber security, specializing in cyber intel and forensics investigation from UTICA College and an MBA from FGV (Brazil). He is also certified in CISSP, CASP, E|CEH, E|CSA, CompTIA, Security+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certified, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Cloud+, CompTIA Mobility+, Azure Specialist, MCSE, and MCTS. Yuri is a senior member of the ISSA Forth Worth/TX chapter, a member of CSA Brazil, and a speaker at Hacker Halted, TechEd US, TechEd Europe, and TechEd Brazil. He is also a coauthor of Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond from Syngress , Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion by Microsoft Press, as well as three other books about Forefront (UAG, TMG, and FPE) by Microsoft Press, and a cloud essentials certification book and security+ book (both in Portuguese) by Novaterra Publisher. You can follow Yuri on Twitter via @yuridiogenes.

I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for the opportunity to partner in this project, the author of this book for taking my feedback and addressing it, and to my wife, Alexsandra, and daughters, Yanne and Ysis, for always supporting me. Love you!

Richard Diver is a solutions architect with 15 years of experience across multiple industries and technologies, with a focus on Microsoft infrastructure, mobility, and identity management solutions. His previous book contributions include topics such as Sysinternals Tools, Windows Intune, and Office 365.

Richard M. Hicks (MCP, MCSE, MCTS, and MCITP Enterprise Administrator) is a network and information security expert specializing in Microsoft technologies. As a six-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Enterprise Security discipline, he has traveled around the world, speaking to network engineers, security administrators, and IT professionals about Microsoft edge security and remote access solutions.

Richard has nearly two decades of experience working in large-scale corporate computing environments and has designed and deployed perimeter defense and secure remote access solutions for some of the largest companies in the world. He blogs extensively about Microsoft edge security and remote access solutions and is a contributing author at popular sites such as CloudComputingAdmin.com, WindowsSecurity.com, ISAserver.org, and the Petri IT Knowledgebase. In addition, he is a Pluralsight author and has served as the technical reviewer on several Windows Server and network security books.