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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

You're reading from   Learn PowerShell Core 6.0 Automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838986
Length 552 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David das Neves David das Neves
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Jan-Hendrik Peters Jan-Hendrik Peters
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Preface 1. Current PowerShell Versions FREE CHAPTER 2. PowerShell ISE Versus VSCode 3. Basic Coding Techniques 4. Advanced Coding Techniques 5. Writing Reusable Code 6. Working with Data 7. Understanding PowerShell Security 8. Just Enough Administration 9. DevOps with PowerShell 10. Creating Your Own PowerShell Repository 11. VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines 12. PowerShell Desired State Configuration 13. Working with Windows 14. Working with Azure 15. Connecting to Microsoft Online Services 16. Working with SCCM and SQL Server 17. PowerShell Deep Dives 18. PowerShell ISE Hotkeys 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Current situation around PowerShell

First of all, we need to clarify the current situation in the field itself. The news is full of malware statements that were using PowerShell. Antivirus companies are describing that there is a decent amount of PowerShell usage within malware, and each day new vulnerabilities are being disclosed. In addition, we saw drastic impacts, with ransomware compromising whole companies and even hospitals by encrypting thousands of machines. We have many security conferences in the world: BlackHat, Def Con, Troopers, BlueHat, and BSides, to name a few. At all of these conferences, we can see demos that make use of PowerShell and demonstrate some attacking or exploiting techniques using it. This is only the tip of the iceberg, as we see also an increased use of PowerShell tactics in the lateral account movement. On GitHub, you can download many pentesting...

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