This book is for IT professionals, Windows IT administrators, cybersecurity practitioners, and incident response teams, including SOC teams, responsible for managing cybersecurity incidents in Windows-based environments. Specifically, system administrators, security analysts, and network engineers tasked with maintaining the security of Windows systems and networks will find this book indispensable. Basic understanding of Windows systems and cybersecurity concepts is needed to grasp the concepts in this book.
Anatoly Tykushin is a services director at Group-IB with 6 years of experience in digital forensics, incident response, compromise assessment, and threat hunting. He has created several DFIR training programs in incident response and network forensics, written several blog posts, and contributed to threat research reports. Outside of DFIR, he has a background in IT administration and DevOps, microcontroller unit development in C, and ASM.
Svetlana Ostrovskaya is a practicing specialist in digital forensics and incident response at Group-IB. She is the author of DFIR training programs and cybersecurity crisis management workshops, and the author and co-author of blog posts, articles, and books on information security, computer forensics, and incident response.