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Alex Ionescu is a chief software architect and consultant expert in low-level system software, kernel development, security training, and reverse engineering. He teaches Windows internals course with David Solomon, and is active in the security research community.
| Introduction | |
| Structure of the Book | |
| History of the Book | |
| Sixth Edition Changes | |
| Hands-on Experiments | |
| Topics Not Covered | |
| A Warning and a Caveat | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Errata & Book Support | |
| We Want to Hear from You | |
| Stay in Touch | |
| Concepts and Tools | |
| Windows Operating System Versions | |
| Foundation Concepts and Terms | |
| Digging into Windows Internals | |
| Conclusion | |
| System Architecture | |
| Requirements and Design Goals | |
| Operating System Model | |
| Architecture Overview | |
| Key System Components | |
| Conclusion | |
| System Mechanisms | |
| Trap Dispatching | |
| Object Manager | |
| Synchronization | |
| System Worker Threads | |
| Windows Global Flags | |
| Advanced Local Procedure Call | |
| Kernel Event Tracing | |
| Wow64 | |
| User-Mode Debugging | |
| Image Loader | |
| Hypervisor (Hyper-V) | |
| Kernel Transaction Manager | |
| Hotpatch Support | |
| Kernel Patch Protection | |
| Code Integrity | |
| Conclusion | |
| Management Mechanisms | |
| The Registry | |
| Services | |
| Unified Background Process Manager | |
| Windows Management Instrumentation | |
| Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure | |
| Conclusion | |
| Processes, Threads, and Jobs | |
| Process Internals | |
| Protected Processes | |
| Flow of CreateProcess | |
| Thread Internals | |
| Examining Thread Activity | |
| Worker Factories (Thread Pools) | |
| Thread Scheduling | |
| Processor Share-Based Scheduling | |
| Dynamic Processor Addition and Replacement | |
| Job Objects | |
| Conclusion | |
| Security | |
| Security Ratings | |
| Security System Components | |
| Protecting Objects | |
| The AuthZ API | |
| Account Rights and Privileges | |
| Access Tokens of Processes and Threads | |
| Security Auditing | |
| Logon | |
| User Account Control and Virtualization | |
| Application Identification (AppID) | |
| AppLocker | |
| Software Restriction Policies | |
| Conclusion | |
| Networking | |
| Windows Networking Architecture | |
| Networking APIs | |
| Multiple Redirector Support | |
| Distributed File System Namespace | |
| Distributed File System Replication | |
| Offline Files | |
| BranchCache | |
| Name Resolution | |
| Location and Topology | |
| Protocol Drivers | |
| NDIS Drivers | |
| Binding | |
| Layered Network Services | |
| Conclusion | |
| About The Authors | |
| More Resources for Developers | |
| Microsoft Press® books | |
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