Hello, everyone. My name is Mike Woolard, and welcome to my course on Active
Defense with PowerShell. I'm an information security manager, so I understand
the constant battle we face to keep our organizations out of the news. Whether
you work for a small, medium, or Fortune 500 company, we can't possibly see and
know everything and everyone in our systems. As we face issues like shadow IT,
insider threats,
ransom, and corporate espionage, we need tools to be
our eyes and ears in our network.
That is where taking an active approach to our defense with tools
like PowerShell helps narrow the gap. In this course, we're going to
approach the concept from both angles.
First, looking at ways of setting traps and capturing adversaries early.
We'll then flip to support our blue teams and the standards
they put in place to secure our systems.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include setting up
various types of honeypots, using the knowledge of how hackers
attack against them, and auditing our systems for conformity
with the security standards.
By the end of this course, you will have additional PowerShell scripts in
your arsenal, along with a deeper knowledge of other PowerShell functions
out there. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with the
basics of writing PowerShell scripts,
the structure of Active Directory, and the red team attack frameworks.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn how to apply PowerShell
scripts to concepts of active defense in your network with the Active
Defense with PowerShell course, here at Pluralsight.