Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Loretta Yates and the entire Microsoft Press/Pearson team for their support in this project, Sarah Fender for writing the foreword, and also the Microsoft Sentinel Engineering Team. We would also like to thank Javier Soriano for reviewing this book and writing Appendix B, and Mike Kassis for writing Appendix A.

Yuri would also like to thank: my wife and daughters for their endless support; my great God for giving me strength and guiding my path, each step of the way; my co-authors and friends Nicholas DiCola and Tiander Turpijn for such great partnership throughout this project. Thanks to my parents for working hard to give me an education, which is the foundation I use every day to keep moving forward in my career.

Nicholas would also like to thank: my wife and three children for supporting me while working on this book, and my co-authors and friends Yuri and Tiander for their hard work on this book. I would also like to thank our Microsoft Sentinel Engineering team technical reviewers for their support of the book.

Tiander would also like to thank: my love Miriam Smit for believing in me, your endless support for all I do, regardless of whether it makes sense. My dear friends Jimmy Eekhout, Ronald Beijnon, and Arthur de Meij for being there when I need them. I’d like to thank my dear mother, Sonja, who gave everything so that I could study and get a proper education. I miss you every day. Thank you to my co-authors and friends, Yuri Diogenes (thank you for the writing opportunity) and Nicholas DiCola, for your great partnership while writing this book and beyond.