Windows PowerShell in Action

Chapter 13. Security, security, security

13.1	Introduction to security	441
13.2	Security modeling	443
13.3	Securing the PowerShell environment	449
13.4	Signing scripts	453
13.5	Writing secure scripts	465
13.6	Summary	474

	With great power comes great responsibility.
	--Stan Lee, The Amazing Spiderman

In this chapter, we’ll review security modeling concepts, and then look at the security features in PowerShell. We’ll also look at how to write secure scripts in PowerShell. Boring, you say. Do we really need to know this stuff? Yeah, we do. In a connected world, security is incredibly important. A small mistake can have huge consequences. People will talk about a “zone of influence”—the idea that something that happens far away can’t impact us. This idea is basically ...