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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

Privileged accounts and groups

A privileged account is an account that has more rights and privileges than a normal account and therefore needs to be cared especially for their security.

Built-in privileged accounts also exist in AD, such as the administrator account, the Guest account, the HelpAssistant account, and the krbtgt account (which is responsible for Kerberos operations).

If you want to read more about AD built-in accounts, please refer to the official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/manage/understand-default-user-accounts.

Built-in privileged groups in AD

In AD, there are some predefined roles such as the Enterprise or Domain Administrator roles, but those are not the only ones.

Those predefined roles reside in the Builtin container of your domain. To query it you can use the Get-ADGroup cmdlet and specify the Distinguished Name (DN) of your domain-specific Builtin container as -Searchbase; using this parameter...

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