Windows & PowerShell Commands — Essential Guide for Cybersecurity Professionals, Okan YILDIZ, 2025

🔹 Core Windows CLI for Security Operations
– Event log inspection (wevutil, eventvwr, Get-WinEvent)
– User/session visibility & live investigation commands
– Process, service, and network analysis essentials
– File system auditing & permission review techniques

🔹 PowerShell for DFIR & Threat Hunting
– Deep system enumeration (Get-Process, Get-Service, Get-LocalUser, CIM/WMI queries)
– Network reconnaissance & live traffic monitoring
– Registry interrogation for persistence & malware indicators
– Collecting artifacts for IR workflows

🔹 Active Directory & Identity Insights
– AD object queries & user/group enumeration
– Privilege escalation visibility
– Sessions, logons, access rights & trust relationship checks

🔹 Incident Response Foundations
– Quick triage commands
– Host compromise validation
– Lateral movement indicators
– Privileged access and credential abuse checks

🔹 Red Team & Blue Team Utility Commands
– Recon & enumeration shortcuts
– Script execution policies
– Command-line defense evasion insights (for defenders to detect)

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