Books

Securing DevOps guides you on all the essential techniques for securing cloud services. You'll learn mission-critical strategies to protect web applications against attacks, deter fraud attempts and make services safer when operating at scale. Explains how to identify, assess and secure cloud deployments and commonly used automation tools. You'll learn to build security into automated testing

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, 2nd ed., teaches you how to quickly write Python programs that do in minutes what would take hours by hand—with no programming experience required. Covers Python basics, its library of task-specific modules, input validation, tutorials on automating Gmail and Google Sheets, tips on automatically updating CSV files. Includes step-by-step instructions and

Beginning the Linux Command Line, 2nd ed., was written for system administrators, software developers, and enthusiastic users who are interested in mastering the command line in Linux. Since many commands have confusing documentation, this guide helps fill the gap with easily understandable explanations that are distribution agnostic. Covers how Linux is organized and how to work with files &

PowerShell in Depth 2nd Edition is an expert reference for sysadmins who already know PowerShell basics. In this hands-on guide, PowerShell MVPs Don Jones, Jeffrey Hicks, and Richard Siddaway have covered every major technique, technology and tactic to create a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell, including automating tasks, packaging and deploying scripts, intro to

Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators helps build the knowledge to be able to fully utilize the advanced feature set of Windows 10 Enterprise. This practical guide focuses on areas such as installation and configuration techniques, deployment scenarios and management strategies, account management, remotely management of Windows Server and Azure Active Directory and modern Mobile Device

Windows Performance Analysis Field Guide is a practical field guide approach to performance monitoring and analysis. Microsoft expert Clint Huffman explains how to identify and remedy problems with disk, memory, processor and network as well as how to leverage perfomance counters and various tools to troubleshoot. Helps you optimize your MS Windows performance and resolve tricky problems in the

Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks explains the principles behind zero trust architecture, along with what's needed to implement it. Covers the evolution of perimeter-based defenses have evolved into the current broken model, case studies of zero trust in production networks on both the client and server side, example configurations for open source tools useful for

DNS and BIND, 5th Ed. explains how to work with the Internet's distributed host information database—which is responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and listing phone numbers according to the ENUM standard. Covers BIND 9.3.2 & 8.4.7, the what/how/why of DNS, name servers, MX records, subdividing domains (parenting), DNSSEC, TSIG, troubleshooting

Pro SQL Server Internals 2nd ed. Edition is for developers and database admins who want to design, develop and maintain systems that best leverage SQL Server. The book fosters an understanding of how to get to the root causes of problems rather than slapping quick-fixes on the resulting symptoms. Explains how different components work in depth, how they communicate with each other and how