Protecting yours Endpoint with PowerShell

Below, I share with you the general aspects of the talk.

Why PowerShell?
We will briefly explain the reasons why learning PowerShell, as well as including it in your toolset will give you a lot of benefits in terms of automation, speed, and efficiency in the security processes of your technological infrastructure.

Administrative Ease.
How PowerShell makes my life easier? In the previous section we talked about the importance of using Powershell, in this section we will demonstrate those activities that facilitate the administration of your technological infrastructure with PowerShell.

Detecting irregularities in your operating systems with Powershell.
How to know that I was compromised? through some commands or a set of them we will demonstrate how PowerShell will help you to detect irregular activities in your technological infrastructure.

Protecting (Hardening) your technological infrastructure with Powershell.
How to make it harder for attackers? It is almost impossible to prevent the bad guys from entering your IT infrastructure, what you can do is to delay them from achieving their goal. In this part we will show those commands and scripts necessary to perform a hardening of your servers and workstations. The most interesting thing about these scripts and commands is that once you have them defined you can have them as a baseline of security in your technology platform.

Auditing the security maturity of your technology infrastructure.
How well are we enforcing security in your infrastructure? Many times, you apply those security controls over your information assets that make the most sense to you, however, you may find that industry standards are a bit more mature than your organization is. By running some scripts, you will be able to see how close to industry maturity your technology infrastructure is.

Conclusions.
There will be a summary of the aspects covered in the talk such as the need to have detection, protection, and auditing mechanisms for your technology platform.

1. Download or update PowerShell. If you have Windows, update to the latest version of PowerShell 7; and if you have Linux or MacOS, install PowerShell 7.

2. Learn the basics of PowerShell, such as, command structure, variable declaration, script creation and functions.

3. Review the repository of the commands seen in the session and test them.

Additional information
All commands executed and websites referenced during the lecture will be kept in a GitHub repository and the URL will be provided to the participants.

It is important to note that, in order not to exceed the presentation time, only the commands, functions and scripts needed for proof of concepts will be demonstrated.