Microsoft® Windows® Scripting with WMI: Self-Paced Learning Guide

Chapter 13

Understanding WMI Security

In Chapter 12, we talked about the performance monitor classes. We discussed how we can use

them to obtain real-time data that can either form the basis of a reporting script or a monitoring

script. In this chapter, we examine WMI security. Everyone wants to talk about security—and

for good reason. It does not make sense to have something that enables administrators to make

changes to every workstation on the network if hackers can use the same tools to make changes

to every workstation on the network! There is a balancing act between security and function-

ality. Some of the recent security changes made ...