SecOps Scripting with PowerShell: Automate Defense & Response

By Taylor Chadwick

Can your SecOps team cut investigation time from hours to minutes and turn repeatable responses into reliable automation?

SecOps Scripting with PowerShell: Automate Defense & Response gives security professionals an executable playbook: practical PowerShell scripts, tested patterns, and operational workflows that accelerate audits and incident response while strengthening governance. This book focuses on hands-on, production-ready techniques, no fluff, covering event triage, hunting, Defender and Entra integrations, telemetry at scale (Sysmon + WEF), secure delivery, CI testing, and playbooks for real incidents.

What this book delivers

Field-tested PowerShell recipes for rapid triage and evidence collection across Windows and cloud identity sources.

Step-by-step automation for hunting and response using Defender APIs, Microsoft.Entra/Graph, and SIEM ingestion.

Scalable telemetry patterns: Sysmon deployment, Windows Event Forwarding, and agentless collection strategies.

Safe automation practices: code signing, execution policy hardening, JEA/JIT privilege controls, and secrets handled by vaults.

DevOps-grade quality: PSScriptAnalyzer linting, Pester unit tests, CI gating, and artifact signing so scripts are auditable and deployable.

Playbooks you can run the same day: ransomware triage, suspicious PowerShell investigations, identity compromise workflows, and post-incident reporting.

Who should read this
Designed for SecOps engineers, incident responders, SOC analysts, and security-focused SREs who want high-impact gains from scripting and automation. If you manage audits, reduce MTTR, or scale detection and response, this book turns manual drudgery into repeatable, governed automation.

Ready to transform your team's response capability? Get SecOps Scripting with PowerShell: Automate Defense & Response and start shipping tested PowerShell automation that speeds audits, shrinks containment windows, and delivers auditable outcomes. Purchase your copy today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FPX6VNFQ
• ISBN13: 9798263784447
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"