📌 The Art of Monitoring by James Turnbull is a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and managing monitoring systems. Rather than focusing on a single monitoring tool, the book emphasizes the core principles and best practices of monitoring. It explains how to effectively monitor the health of servers, networks, and applications, collect meaningful metrics and logs, build informative dashboards, and create alerts that provide real value instead of unnecessary noise.

✔️ This book is an excellent resource for System Administrators, DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Infrastructure Engineers, and SOC/SIEM professionals who want to build a solid understanding of monitoring architecture and learn best practices for monitoring modern IT infrastructure and applications.

Mimikatz is a powerful tool used to extract and manipulate Windows credentials, mainly in penetration testing and post-exploitation.

📌 Common capabilities include:

⏺Extracting NTLM hashes and certain credentials from memory
⏺Extracting and manipulating Kerberos tickets
⏺Accessing credentials stored in LSASS
⏺Working with Windows authentication protocols
⏺Performing techniques such as Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket