Andrea Allievi (Greater Seattle, WA Area) is a Senior Kernel Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the field. He works in the Windows Core OS team at Microsoft, where he designs and develops robust Windows kernel Security features. He is also active in the security research community and often speaks at conferences, including Recon and Blue Hat. He started as a Security Researcher in small Italian companies such as TgSoft and SaferBytes. He then moved to the Talos group at Cisco Systems, where his time was split between the development of anti-virus and anti-rootkit tools and security research of offensive and defensive technologies, particularly in the Windows' kernel. In that time, after the design of the first UEFI Bootkit and the bypass of the Windows 8.1 Kernel Patch Protection, he became an internationally recognized expert in the operating system's internals.

Introduction

Drill down into Windows architecture and internals, discover how core Windows components work behind the scenes, and master information you can continually apply to improve architecture, development, system administration, and support.
Led by three renowned Windows internals experts, this classic guide is now fully updated for Windows 10 and 8.x. As always, it combines unparalleled insider perspectives on how Windows behaves "under the hood" with hands-on experiments that let you experience these hidden behaviours first hand.
Part 2 examines these and other key Windows 10 OS components and capabilities:

• Startup and shutdown
• The Windows Registry
• Windows management mechanisms
• WMI
• System mechanisms
• ALPC
• ETW
• Cache Manager
• Windows file systems
• The hypervisor and virtualization
• UWP Activation

Revised throughout, this edition also contains three entirely new chapters:

• Virtualization technologies
• Management diagnostics and tracing
• Caching and file system support