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PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity

You're reading from PowerShell Automation and Scripting for Cybersecurity Hacking and defense for red and blue teamers

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566378

Length 572 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Miriam C. Wiesner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: PowerShell Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with PowerShell FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: PowerShell Scripting Fundamentals

4. Chapter 3: Exploring PowerShell Remote Management Technologies and PowerShell Remoting

5. Chapter 4: Detection – Auditing and Monitoring

6. Part 2: Digging Deeper – Identities, System Access, and Day-to-Day Security Tasks

7. Chapter 5: PowerShell Is Powerful – System and API Access

8. Chapter 6: Active Directory – Attacks and Mitigation

9. Chapter 7: Hacking the Cloud – Exploiting Azure Active Directory/Entra ID

10. Chapter 8: Red Team Tasks and Cookbook

11. Chapter 9: Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook

12. Part 3: Securing PowerShell – Effective Mitigations In Detail

13. Chapter 10: Language Modes and Just Enough Administration (JEA)

14. Chapter 11: AppLocker, Application Control, and Code Signing

15. Chapter 12: Exploring the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI)

16. Chapter 13: What Else? – Further Mitigations and Resources

17. Index

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Further reading

If you want to explore some of the topics that were mentioned in this chapter, take a look at the following resources:

Certificate operations:

New-SelfSignedCertificate: Set-AuthenticodeSignature:

CI/CD:

CI/CD: The what, why, and how: integration: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/about-continuous-integration

Application control:

Application Control for Windows: The rest of the chapter is locked

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Authors (1)

Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner

Miriam C. Wiesner is a senior security researcher at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in IT and IT security. She has held various positions, including administrator/system engineer, software developer, premier field engineer, program manager, security consultant, and pentester. She is also a renowned creator of open source tools based in PowerShell, including EventList and JEAnalyzer. She has been invited multiple times to present the research behind her tools at many international conferences, such as Black Hat (the US, Europe, and Asia), PSConfEU, and MITRE ATT&CK workshop. Outside of work, Miriam is a dedicated wife and mother, residing with her family near Nuremberg, Germany.

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