🎯 What You'll Learn
- Understand Windows architecture and the registry
- Explain users, groups and access tokens
- Use core management and CLI tools
- Grasp the NTFS permission model
About This Workbook
Windows dominates the enterprise, so understanding it is essential. This workbook covers the architecture, security model, management tools and concepts you need before attacking Windows networks.
Chapter 1 — Architecture & Registry
How Windows is put together.
- Kernel vs user mode
- The registry
- Key system processes
Chapter 2 — Security Model
How Windows decides who can do what.
- Users, groups and SIDs
- Access tokens
- UAC
Chapter 3 — Filesystem & Permissions
Controlling access to data on disk.
- NTFS permissions
- Shares
- Inheritance
Chapter 4 — Management Tools
The built-in tools for running Windows.
- Management consoles
- Command line essentials
- Services and tasks
Keep going. Work through each chapter in order, then apply what you learned in the matching labs.