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by Dmitry Vostokov (Author), Software Diagnostics Services (Author), Dublin School of Security (Author)
The book contains the full Software Diagnostics Services training transcript with 25 hands-on exercises. This training course extends pattern-oriented analysis introduced in Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Accelerated .NET Core Memory Dump Analysis, and Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures courses with:
- Surveying the current landscape of WinDbg extensions with analysis pattern mappings
- Writing WinDbg extensions in C, C++, and Rust (new)
- Connecting WinDbg to NoSQL databases
- Connecting WinDbg to streaming and log processing platforms
- Querying and visualizing WinDbg output data
- Using Data Science, Machine Learning, and Gen AI for diagnostics and postmortem debugging (new)
The new edition of the training updates existing exercises and includes new ones.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of WinDbg. Working knowledge of C, C++, or Rust is optional (required only for some exercises). Other concepts are explained when necessary.
Audience: Software developers, software maintenance engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance engineers, security and vulnerability researchers, malware and memory forensics analysts who want to build memory analysis pipelines.
