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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800566378
Length 572 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Blue Team Tasks and Cookbook

As a member of the blue team, your primary goal is to protect your organization’s systems and networks from cyber threats. However, this is no easy task. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and you may be faced with challenges such as managing and analyzing large amounts of data, coordinating with other teams, and ensuring compliance with regulations.

In this chapter, we’ll first take a closer look at the protect, detect, and respond approach and some of the challenges that blue teamers face. Next, we will explore an overview of some useful open source tools written in PowerShell that can help you in your daily practice as a blue teamer. Finally, we will look at the blue team cookbook, a collection of PowerShell snippets that can come in handy in your daily work as a blue team practitioner.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Understanding the protect, detect, and respond approach
  • Common PowerShell...
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