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Auditing and logging

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- [Instructor] Auditing and logging in Powershell play a crucial role in tracking command execution, security monitoring, and compliance enforcement. By maintaining detailed logs of executed commands and system changes, administrators can identify suspicious activity, prevent unauthorized access, and analyze past incidents for forensic purposes. Organizations with strict security policies or regulatory compliance requirements rely on logging to maintain an audit trail of administrative actions, ensuring accountability and transparency in system management. Group policies provide a centralized way to configure PowerShell logging by ensuring consistency and auditing across multiple systems. To define the policy, we navigate to Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, and then go into the Windows PowerShell option to define the logging configuration. Module logging tracks the execution of commandlets from various modules, while script block login captures the…

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