CyberOps Windows Hardening: Windows Workstation Hardening Best Practices

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 youll 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. Youll learn how to secure a workstation by implementing hardening procedures related to the BIOS/UEFI. Youll carry out user account and group membership security strategies. Youll practice reducing unneeded software patching the system configuring user rights and setting up auditing. Additionally youll work with full disk encryption antivirus methods firewall software and security templates. To carry out this work youll utilize BitLocker AppLocker and Windows Defender.