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ISC2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, 10th Edition

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Copyright © 2024 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

ISBNs: 9781394254699 (paperback), 9781394254712 (ePDF), 9781394254705 (ePub)

ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Official Study Guide, 10th Edition has been completely updated based on the latest 2024 CISSP Detailed Content Outline. This bestselling Sybex Study Guide covers 100% of the CISSP objectives. You’ll prepare smarter and faster with Sybex thanks to expert content, knowledge from our real-world experience, access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment, and much more. Reinforce what you’ve learned with key topic Study Essentials and chapter review questions.

The book’s co-authors bring decades of experience as cybersecurity practitioners and educators, integrating real-world expertise with the practical knowledge you’ll need to successfully prove your CISSP mastery. Combined, they’ve taught cybersecurity concepts to millions of students through their books, video courses, and live training programs.

Along with the book, you also get access to Sybex’s superior online interactive learning environment that includes:

  • Over 900 practice test questions with complete answer explanations. This includes all of the questions from the book plus four additional online-only practice exams, each with 125 unique questions. You can use the online-only practice exams as full exam simulations. Our questions will help you identify where you need to study more.
  • More than 1000 Electronic Flashcards to reinforce your learning and give you last-minute test prep 
  • A searchable glossary in PDF to give you instant access to the key terms you need to know 
  • Audio Review. Author Mike Chapple reads the Study Essentials for each chapter providing you with more than 2 hours of up-to-date audio review for yet another way to reinforce your knowledge as you prepare.

Coverage of all of the CISSP topics in the book means you’ll be ready for:

  • Security and Risk Management
  • Asset Security
  • Security Architecture and Engineering
  • Communication and Network Security
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Security Assessment and Testing
  • Security Operations
  • Software Development Security
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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exams 220-1101 & 220-1102), 11th Edition

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Copyright © 2023 by McGraw Hill. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-26-461015-0
MHID: 1-26-461015-7

This bestselling on-the-job reference and test preparation guide has been fully revised for new 2022 exam objectives

This highly effective self-study exam guide has been thoroughly updated to cover 100% of the topics covered on the latest version of the exam. This new edition includes expanded coverage of mobile computing, cloud and virtualization services, Windows 10, Linux, enhanced security, and advanced software troubleshooting procedures.

CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Eleventh Edition (Exam 220-1101 & 220-1102) enables you to take the test with complete confidence. In keeping with the All-In-One philosophy, the book serves both as an exam guide and as a practical reference for IT support and technical personnel. Online content includes 200 accurate practice questions, sample Mike Meyers training videos, sample TotalSim interactive lab simulations, Mike’s favorite PC hardware Cool Tools, and a searchable PDF glossary.

  • Online content includes 200 practice questions, sample video training featuring Mike Meyers, sample Total Sim interactive lab simulations, and a searchable PDF glossary
  • Contains a coupon for 10% off of the exam fee—a $46 value
  • Written by experienced trainer Scott Jernigan and edited by training guru Mike Meyers

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PowerShell Cookbook, 4th Edition

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Copyright © 2021 Lee Holmes. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-098-10160-2

Online Searchable Edition: https://www.powershellcookbook.com
GitHub: https://github.com/LeeHolmes/PowerShellCookbook

How do you use PowerShell to navigate the filesystem, manage files and folders, or retrieve a web page? This introduction to the PowerShell language and scripting environment provides more than 400 task-oriented recipes to help you solve all kinds of problems. Intermediate to advanced system administrators will find more than 100 tried-and-tested scripts they can copy and use immediately.

Updated for PowerShell 5.1 and Open Source PowerShell up to 7.0 and beyond, this comprehensive cookbook includes hands-on recipes for common tasks and administrative jobs that you can apply whether you’re on the client or server version of Windows. You also get quick references to technologies used in conjunction with PowerShell, including regular expressions, the XPath language, format specifiers, and frequently referenced .NET, COM, and WMI classes.

  • Learn how to use PowerShell on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
  • Tour PowerShell’s core features, including the command model, object-based pipeline, and ubiquitous scripting
  • Master fundamentals such as the interactive shell, pipeline, and object concepts
  • Perform common tasks that involve working with files, internet-connected scripts, user interaction, and more
  • Solve tasks in systems and enterprise management, such as working with Active Directory and the filesystem
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Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook – Second Edition

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Copyright © 2022 Packt Publishing

ISBN 978-1-80324-691-8

Discover practical recipes to help you efficiently monitor enterprise IT infrastructure for Microsoft Windows, Linux, networking, and more

Key Features

  • Find out how you can leverage some of the most exciting features of Zabbix 6
  • Perform professional IT infrastructure and application monitoring on multiple platforms
  • Discover easy-to-follow, practical solutions to problems in network monitoring with Zabbix

Book Description

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You’ll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network.

You’ll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you’ll use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you’ll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your Zabbix monitoring work.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.

What you will learn

  • Implement your high-availability Zabbix setup
  • Build templates and explore the different types of monitoring available in Zabbix 6
  • Use Zabbix proxies to scale your environment effectively
  • Work with custom integrations and the Zabbix API
  • Set up advanced triggers and effective alerting
  • Maintain your Zabbix setup for scaling, backups, and upgrades
  • Discover how to perform advanced Zabbix database management
  • Monitor cloud-based products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Docker

Who this book is for

This book is for IT engineers who want to get started with Zabbix and anyone with an intermediate-level understanding of Zabbix looking to extend their knowledge. Although not necessary, prior experience with Zabbix will help you to make the most of this book.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Copyright © 2023 by Pearson Education, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-787845-1
ISBN-10: 0-13-787845-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022944665

The definitive practical guide to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Fully covers new components and multi-cloud enhancements!

Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers comprehensive tools for hardening resources, tracking security posture, protecting against attacks, and streamlining security management all in one natively integrated toolset. Now, leading Microsoft security experts Yuri Diogenes and Tom Janetscheck help you apply its robust protection, detection, and response capabilities throughout your operations, protecting workloads running on all your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises platforms.

This guide shows how to make the most of new components, enhancements, and deployment scenarios, as you address todays latest threat vectors. Sharing best practices, expert tips, and optimizations only available from Microsofts Defender for Cloud team, the authors walk through improving everything from policies and governance to incident response and risk management. Whatever your role or experience, theyll help you address new security challenges far more effectively — and save hours, days, or even weeks.

Two of Microsofts leading cloud security experts show how to:

  • Assess new threat landscapes, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the implications of assume-breach
  • Explore Defender for Cloud architecture, use cases, and adoption considerations including multicloud with AWS and GCP
  • Plan for effective governance, successful onboarding, and maximum value
  • Fully visualize complex cloud estates and systematically reduce their attack surfaces
  • Prioritize risks with Secure Score, and leverage at-scale tools to build secure cloud-native apps
  • Establish consistent policy enforcement to avoid drift
  • Use advanced analytics and machine learning to identify attacks based on signals from all cloud workloads
  • Enhance security posture by integrating with the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM/SOAR, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Leverage just-in-time VM access and other enhanced security capabilities

About This Book

  • For architects, designers, implementers, SecOps professionals, developers, and security specialists working in Microsoft Azure environments
  • For all IT professionals and decision-makers concerned with securing modern hybrid/multicloud environments, cloud-native apps, and PaaS services