Summary
In this chapter, we covered a lot of ground and laid the foundation for understanding the specific NT exploits, which will be explained next. It is important to remember that even though this chapter concentrated on NT, a lot of the concepts we covered apply to all operating systems. For example, no matter what operating system you run, it is critical that you know and understand what is running on the system in terms of services, open ports, user accounts, and network protocols. There is no way that you can protect a system if you do not know what you are protecting.
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