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PowerShell security

- [Instructor] When using PowerShell, it's important to understand some of the PowerShell Security capabilities and features that are available. For example, we already discussed the actual control on the windows machine, for example, using user access control and running as administrator. Now PowerShell's Execution Policy is a safety feature that controls the conditions under which PowerShell loads configuration files and run scripts. This feature will help prevent the execution of malicious scripts. On a windows computer you can set an execution policy for the local computer for the current user or for the particular session. You can also use a Group Policy setting to set execution policies for computers and users if you are managing those user workstations. The execution policy isn't a security system that restrict user actions. Users can easily bypass a policy by typing the script contents at the command line…

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