Please see the following for further reading relating to this chapter:
- Data Protection API: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/security/how-to-use-data-protection
- ProtectedData module: https://github.com/dlwyatt/ProtectedData
- LINQ: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/concepts/linq/
- .NET API reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api
- SplitPipeline module: https://github.com/nightroman/SplitPipeline
- Polaris: https://github.com/powershell/polaris
- WQL: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394606(v=vs.85).aspx
- CIM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/cimcmdlets/?view=powershell-6
- DMTF: https://www.dmtf.org/
- RESTful web services: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm