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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

By : Miriam C. Wiesner
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Book Image

PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

5 (2)
By: Miriam C. Wiesner

Overview of this book

Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with this comprehensive guide to PowerShell security! Whether you’re a red or blue teamer, you’ll gain a deep understanding of PowerShell’s security capabilities and how to use them. After revisiting PowerShell basics and scripting fundamentals, you’ll dive into PowerShell Remoting and remote management technologies. You’ll learn how to configure and analyze Windows event logs and understand the most important event logs and IDs to monitor your environment. You’ll dig deeper into PowerShell’s capabilities to interact with the underlying system, Active Directory and Azure AD. Additionally, you’ll explore Windows internals including APIs and WMI, and how to run PowerShell without powershell.exe. You’ll uncover authentication protocols, enumeration, credential theft, and exploitation, to help mitigate risks in your environment, along with a red and blue team cookbook for day-to-day security tasks. Finally, you’ll delve into mitigations, including Just Enough Administration, AMSI, application control, and code signing, with a focus on configuration, risks, exploitation, bypasses, and best practices. By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of how to employ PowerShell from both a red and blue team perspective.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Digging Deeper – Identities, System Access, and Day-to-Day Security Tasks
12
Part 3: Securing PowerShell – Effective Mitigations In Detail

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

AADInternals 328, 342

features 343

AAD Pass-through Authentication (PTA) 297

AAD password hash synchronization 297

AAD SSO

abusing 329, 330

about_operators documentation

reference link 58

about_Profiles

reference link 354

abstraction 12

Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) 502

access control entries (ACEs) 264

access-allowed ACE 265

access-allowed object ACE 265

access-denied ACE 265

access-denied object ACE 265

access mask 264

system-audit ACE 265

system-audit object ACE 265

trustee 264

access control lists (ACLs) 253, 264, 423

access rights 263

access control list (ACL) 264

domain ACLs 269

domain trusts 271

GPO ACLs 268

OU ACLs 265

Security Identifier (SID) 263, 264

access token 301, 303

Account Operators group...