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5. PowerShell/Python Investigation Example

Chet Hosmer1 
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Longs, SC, USA
 

The ability to gather remote activities during incident response situations is one of the key strengths of PowerShell. The infrastructure provided with the latest version of PowerShell significantly reduces the network setup required and offers significant security.

Integrating PowerShell and Python provides a viable platform for local and remote investigations. The “old” way of connecting to machines remotely is by using DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) and/or RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls). These methods of integration involve significant complexities, and in some ...

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