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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity
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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity
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Overview of this book
Take your cybersecurity skills to the next level with this comprehensive PowerShell security guide! Whether you're on the red or blue team, you'll gain a deep understanding of PowerShell's security capabilities and how to apply them.
With years of hands-on experience, the author brings real-world use cases to demonstrate PowerShell’s critical role in offensive and defensive security.
After covering PowerShell basics and scripting fundamentals, you'll explore PowerShell Remoting and remote management technologies. You'll learn to configure and analyze Windows event logs, identifying crucial logs and IDs for effective monitoring. The book delves into PowerShell's interaction with system components, Active Directory, and Azure AD, including stealth execution methods. You’ll uncover authentication protocols, enumeration, credential theft, and exploitation, providing strategies to mitigate these risks. A dedicated red and blue team cookbook offers practical security tasks. Finally, you'll delve into mitigations such as Just Enough Administration, AMSI, application control, and code signing, emphasizing configuration, risks, exploitation, bypasses, and best practices.
By the end of this book, you’ll confidently apply PowerShell for cybersecurity, from detection to defense, staying ahead of cyber threats.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Preface
Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Getting Started with PowerShell
Chapter 2: PowerShell Scripting Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Exploring PowerShell Remote Management Technologies and PowerShell Remoting
Chapter 4: Detection – Auditing and Monitoring
Part 2: Digging Deeper – Identities, System Access, and Day-to-Day Security Tasks
Chapter 5: PowerShell Is Powerful – System and API Access
Chapter 6: Active Directory – Attacks and Mitigation
Chapter 7: Hacking the Cloud – Exploiting Azure Active Directory/Entra ID
Chapter 8: Red Team Tasks and Cookbook
Chapter 9: Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook
Part 3: Securing PowerShell – Effective Mitigations In Detail
Chapter 10: Language Modes and Just Enough Administration (JEA)
Chapter 11: AppLocker, Application Control, and Code Signing
Chapter 12: Exploring the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI)
Chapter 13: What Else? – Further Mitigations and Resources
Index
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