Lately I’ve had quite a few requests come in from students and clients to review the audit script that companies are using to audit their Unix / Linux systems. It…
So last month we wrote a post about the built in capabilities of Microsoft Windows to be able to perform comparisons of two text files. Personally when I am comparing…
One of the concepts that we have written about over and over again on this blog is the principal of baselining and how to compare the present state of a…
One of the new Microsoft PowerShell cmdlets that auditors should appreciate is the GET-ACL cmdlet. Now, through native PowerShell commands, an auditor can retrieve a list of all the permissions…
Another baseline an auditor or system administrator might want to consider when assessing their systems is a baseline for the general configuration of the Microsoft Windows Firewall. Many organizations are…
In a previous post we shared a PowerShell script that would allow an auditor to parse a list of groups and group members on a Microsoft Windows system as a…
One step that has become a staple part of any audit of Microsoft Windows systems is a listing of all the local groups on the system. Listing all the groups…
