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3-part series: PowerShell for Audit, Compliance and Security Automation and Visualization Part 1: Introduction to Automation with PowerShell
- Thursday, January 07, 2021 at 10:30 AM EST (2021-01-07 15:30:00 UTC)
- Clay Risenhoover
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Overview
As the velocity of IT operations increases, automation is becoming critical for auditors and compliance professionals. In this session, we will cover the basics of using PowerShell for common infosec, compliance and audit tasks. We will make heavy use of demonstrations to explore the object-oriented nature of the shell, important commands for getting help, and how to select, sort, filter and transform results from native Windows tools. We will compare the Windows and Core versions of PowerShell and discuss when it may be appropriate to use PowerShell on non-Windows systems.
Objectives:
- Foundational PowerShell commands
- Getting help
- Extracting system and domain data for analysis
- Selecting, sorting, formatting and saving data
- Exporting results in common structured formats
This material is directly related to Clay's brand new course SEC557: Continuous Automation for Enterprise and Cloud Compliance
Join us again on Thurs, January 14th at 10:30 am ET for Part 2. https://www.sans.org/webcasts/117045
Join us again on Thurs, January 21st at 10:30 am ET for Part 3. https://www.sans.org/webcasts/117050
Speaker Bio
Clay Risenhoover
Clay is the president of Risenhoover Consulting, Inc., an IT management consulting firm based in Durant, Oklahoma. Founded in 2003, RCI provides IT audit and IT management consulting services to clients in multiple sectors. Clay is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) designation. Since 2013 Clay has been involved with the SANS Institute and is the lead author and instructor for AUD507: Auditing & Monitoring Networks, Perimeters, and Systems, as well as a Faculty Research Advisor (FRA) for the SANS Technology Institute. Learn more about Clay here.
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