This 4 day instructor-led course is designed for IT Professionals who want to take advantage of PowerShell and PowerShell automation in their organizations, but want to ensure they are being as secure as possible. A great deal of PowerShell is secure by design, but there are plenty of areas where you can take a few extra steps to increase security. This course will explain and demonstrate how far you can go to secure PowerShell and to use PowerShell securely. The course will be taught in English using Windows PowerShell 5.1 in a domain environment as the foundation with plenty of hands-on opportunities.

## Requirements

Attendees should have fundamental PowerShell experience. They should know how to manage remote systems with PowerShell. They should also have basic PowerShell scripting experience. In short, if you have the equivalent experience from the [Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches](https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-third-edition) and [Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches](https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-scripting-in-a-month-of-lunches), you should be ready for this class.

## Day 1

- What Are Your PowerShell Security Needs?

- Running PowerShell Securely

- Configuring PowerShell Logging

- Parsing Log Files

- Querying Event Logs

- Working with Access Control

- Network Security and Testing

- Securely Using Credentials

- Working with Document Encryption

## Day 2

- PowerShell Remoting the Secure Way

- Securing PowerShell Remoting with SSL

- Kerberos Delegation

- Creating Constrained Remoting Endpoints

- Securing Active Directory with PowerShell

## Day 3

- Introduction to Just Enough Administration (JEA)

- Designing a JEA Solution

- Deploying a JEA Solution

- A Look at Cross-Platform Security with PowerShell Core

## Day 4

- Understand PowerShell Scripting Security

- Code Signing

- Adding Support for WhatIf

- Writing Secure PowerShell Code

- Adding Logging to Your Code

- Distributing Code with a Private Repository

## Meet Your Instructor

Jeffery Hicks is an IT veteran with almost 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher and consultant. Jeff has taught and presented on PowerShell and the benefits of automation to IT Pros worldwide. He has authored and co-authored a number of books, writes for numerous online sites and print publications, a Pluralsight author, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user groups worldwide.

You can keep up with Jeff on Twitter (http://twitter.com/JeffHicks) and on his blog (https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog).