Tag: 2016
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Disabling PowerShell v2 with Group Policy
In this post I am going to tackle something that I have been wanting to play around with for awhile, disabling PowerShell v2 at an enterprise scale. As a former systems engineer and now a security engineer, I have a love/hate relationship with PowerShell since it is amazingly useful but also incredibly dangerous in the…
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Gathering Windows, PowerShell and Sysmon Events with Winlogbeat – ELK 7 – Windows Server 2016 (Part II)
In part I of this series, Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) on Windows Server 2016, I covered the following: Installing and configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana as Windows services Installing and configuring Winlogbeat to forward logs from the ELK server into ELK Installing and configuring Curator as a scheduled task (optional) Now, in…
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Installing ELK 7 (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) – Windows Server 2016 (Part I)
I am a huge fan of the Elastic stack as it can provide a great deal of visibility into even the largest of environments, which can help enable both engineering and security teams rapidly triage technical issues or incidents at scale. There’s also the fact that unlike Splunk, the Elastic software is free to use…
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