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PowerShell for Cyber Defense

6 Courses
3 Labs
14 Hours
Skill IQ

PowerShell is a program well-known for its automation capabilities. Automation is a critical skill security professionals use for continuous monitoring, detection and security analysis. In this path, learn to use PowerShell, and PowerShell tools, to automate and improve your security defense capabilities for analysts, threat hunters and incident responders alike!

This path is a supplemental skill path that extends knowledge and skills for the following roles:

Security Analyst

Incident Responder

Threat Hunter

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PowerShell for Cyber Defense

PowerShell is a program well-known for its automation capabilities. Automation is a critical skill security professionals use for continuous monitoring, detection and security analysis. In this path, learn to use PowerShell, and PowerShell tools, to automate and improve your security defense capabilities for analysts, threat hunters and incident responders alike!

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Related topics
  • continuous monitoring
  • security analysis
  • network security
  • incident response
  • threat hunting
  • powershell
  • automation
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