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…
One of the exciting features of Microsoft Windows PowerShell is the ability to run commands both against a local computer and against remote machines that the user has rights to…
In our last post we discussed how to gather general information about the configuration of a Microsoft Windows Firewall, host based firewall configuration. But what most people are really interested…
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…
