Pre-script security
When you want to create an enterprise-ready script, you need to start with your security components. In Chapter 4, String Encryption and Decryption, you learned the importance of leveraging encoding and encryption to provide added security to your scripts. You can follow several enterprise strategies to ensure that you properly implement encoding and encryption. One of the popular strategies is to create an encryption and decryption salt, init, and password that are shared by all of your scripts. While this is a simpler method from a script management perspective, you provide all departments access to the same encrypted data. Alternatively, you can have the departments create their own encoded salt, init, and passwords for scripts. In this, the encrypted data is different than what your department generates. This provides an additional layer of obscurity to the encrypted data as it's implemented in answer files. While this is more secure, it is a bit more difficult...
