Back in December we posted a couple scripts that fellow auditors had pointed out to us that helped auditors dump Microsoft Windows file permissions to a CSV file for easier auditing. As a result of that post we’ve had feedback from a number of people that it would be helpful to see more of these scripts and even some suggestions … Read More
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a great holiday season so far and is excited and ready for a new year full of auditing excitement! For the first post of the year I thought we would discuss a topic more for fun and something different in the hopes of inspiring you to spend a little more with PowerShell … Read More
Often times as we talk with auditors or students in our classes audit scripts are brought to our attention that might be useful to people performing audits of various technical systems. Sometimes we write helpful scripts and when we do we’ll post them here for you to review. But sometimes we find the scripts and want to make you aware … Read More
Quite a few times in this blog we’ve talked about automating audit and assessment tasks, especially as it relates to system baselines. We’ve tried quite a few times to give our readers tools for creating baselines and always hope that people will turn those baselines into automated processes that will alert them to deviations or changes to their systems. Certainly … Read More
In our last couple posts we described how to gather a general baseline of system demographics on a Microsoft Windows system you’ve been tasked with auditing. Hopefully the posts gave everyone some ideas for the capabilities that PowerShell offers, even if the information we gathered isn’t all that exciting. In this post I thought we would show you additional examples … Read More
After our last post on gathering system demographics using PowerShell (specifically the Get-Object cmdlet) we had a few auditors mention to us that there are other ways to do it as well. We couldn’t agree more and we’re glad they brought it up. Microsoft seems to like to give us choices for how we perform job tasks, and this is … Read More
Over our last few posts we’ve talked a lot about using Unix BASH scripting to audit Unix systems. But we certainly don’t want our Windows friends to feel left out. The more I talk with people and listen to their security challenges, the more interest I hear about how to use PowerShell for audit or security purposes. Who knows, maybe … Read More
In the last few blog entries we have been focusing quite a bit on displaying information from a Unix system via a BASH script. One question that’s come up by quite a few people is, do these commands work on all Unix system? That’s a very valid question. It turns out that one of my favorite sayings about Unix is … Read More
We’ve noticed an issue on some of our Unix servers lately. This may not be completely security related (unless of course we’re talking about the availability of a system). We have noticed on quite a few occurrences lately that the disk space on our Unix servers has started to grow out of control to the point where the availability of … Read More
In our last post we gave some examples of Unix audit script one liners for baselining information from a Unix system. It turns out there are more people than we thought who are interested in this topic and are looking to include commands like these in their scripts. We definitely appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm and decided to post more commands in … Read More
