Sara Perrott is an information security professional with a systems and network engineering background. She shares her passion for all things information technology by teaching classes related to Windows Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and networking and virtualization, as well as other classes when needed at a local community college. She enjoys speaking at public events and presented most recently at the AWS Imagine conference in 2018. Sara also enjoys technical editing and technical proofreading and has had the pleasure to work on a few projects doing this type of work.
When Sara is not working or writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband playing World of Warcraft, building robots, and playing with her ham radio. She also loves playing with her two pugs. Sara has a website where you can see some of the things she has been up to at www.saraperrott.com. You can also follow her on Twitter (@PerrottSara) and Facebook (@PerrottSara).
This book is dedicated to my husband, Chris Perrott. I couldn’t have written this book without your support, assistance, and encouragement. Thank you for always supporting me and for always encouraging me to be the best version of me.
I would also like to dedicate this book to my mother, Debbie, who always told me to never give up and to always do the things that I love. Here it is, Mom, my first book!
This book would not have been possible without a fantastic team of people supporting me every step of the way.
I would like to thank my agent, Carole Jelen, who helped me get my foot in the door with Wiley. Carole, you never stopped encouraging me to try, and for that I am eternally grateful!
I would like to thank Steve Hayes at Wiley for taking a chance on me, a first-time author, for this incredibly awesome project.
Huge thanks and shout out to my editor, Elizabeth Kuball, for patiently guiding this first-time author through the ins and outs of authorship, and for helping me keep on track with all the deadlines. I couldn’t have done this without you!
Thanks to everyone at Wiley who helped this book become a reality from the drafts to the layouts, and then the final printed product.
Last but certainly not least, I would like to extend a sincere and heartfelt thank you to my amazing coworkers for supporting me and encouraging me, as well as allowing me to take the occasional extra day off to make this book a reality. Kyle, Jenee, Chris, Brandon, Jeffro, Jeff, and Joe … thank you so much!
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Executive Editor: Steve Hayes
Project Editor: Elizabeth Kuball
Copy Editor: Elizabeth Kuball
Technical Editor: Timothy Warner
Editorial Assistant: Matthew Lowe
Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case
Production Editor: Siddique Shaik
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