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# Memory Basics

Windows memory management is responsible for efficiently allocating, managing, and organising system and application memory resources in the operating system.

By understanding how memory is allocated, mapped, and protected, exploit developers can identify weak points and design effective exploits that manipulate memory to gain unauthorised access, execute arbitrary code, or bypass security mechanisms.

This section introduces some basic concepts before we delve in to more advanced topics.