Course 9:Implementing PowerShell Security Best Practice 2019

🚀 Course Description 📚

Welcome to Implementing PowerShell Security Best Practice 2019 - a comprehensive course designed for IT professionals aiming to master Windows Server 2019's PowerShell security implementation. This course is your key to understanding and implementing best practices to enhance domain security, deploy PowerShell security scripts, and safeguard your network infrastructure against potential threats.

🔍 Course Objectives

• Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell, including its architectural design, editions, and versions.
• Explore practical ways to implement PowerShell operational security to harden your system's defenses.
• Discover methods to leverage PowerShell for protecting against unintended configuration changes, enforcing least privilege access in remote administration, and tracking/auditing potential exploit attempts.
• Dive into the world of Windows PowerShell-based exploits and learn about the Blue Team's strategies for mitigating such threats.
• Understand how to conduct network and firewall configurations, manage domain inventory, secure domain shares, and write essential scripts for profile detection and registry key management.

🌍 Course Outline

Module 1: PowerShell Fundamentals 🏗️ Learn about the core components of PowerShell, its architectural design, editions, and versions. Understand how to install PowerShell Core on various operating systems (Windows, Linux, and macOS) and work with PowerShell profiles to streamline your scripting environment.

Module 2: PowerShell Operational Security 🛡️ Enhance your system's security by upgrading execution policies, dealing with code signing certificates, and authenticating scripts with authorized certificates to prevent unauthorized access and malicious activities.

Module 3: Implementing PowerShell-based Security 🛡️ Explore the most effective methods for using PowerShell to strengthen security measures. Learn how to protect against configuration changes using Desired State Configuration (DSC), implement Just Enough Administration (JEA) for remote administration, and utilize logging to track and audit potential exploit attempts.

Module 4: Windows PowerShell-based Exploits and their Mitigation 🕵️‍♂️ Understand the perspective of both Red and Blue Teams regarding PowerShell-based security exploits. Discover common techniques employed by attackers to gain unauthorized access, install malicious software, perform reconnaissance, and move laterally within a network. Learn about security tools for penetration testing, forensics, and reverse engineering, and understand the defense-in-depth strategies recommended by cybersecurity experts.

Module 5: Network & Firewall 🌐🚫 Write scripts to scan network ports, test network servers, and secure your infrastructure using firewalls with various methods. This module will equip you with the skills to protect your network's vulnerabilities effectively.

Module 6: Domain Inventory 📊 Learn to detect suspicious profiles within any domain PCs, deploy your code for profile detection, and create comprehensive reports on Active Directory groups, users, and Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Master scripting to manage registry keys and values for robust configuration management.

Module 7: Domain Shares 🖫️ Get hands-on experience with managing domain servers' shares, shared directories, and network shares. You will write scripts tailored to manage these scenarios, ensuring your network's shared resources are secure and properly managed.

By completing this course, you'll be well-prepared to enroll in Course 10: Hack Windows Server 2019 using PowerShell & WMI, where you will work on a main tool script with over 3500 lines of code. This journey will transform you into a PowerShell security expert, ready to tackle the challenges of modern cybersecurity landscapes.

🎓 Embark on this journey today and secure your place in the world of advanced cybersecurity with PowerShell! 🛡️🚀