In this new blog post series I’ll be looking at (normally a selection of 3) cool articles, news and other blog posts that I find interesting during the day. For this week we have PowerShell tricks, a detailed article on securing the Windows Firewall and an (old but very interesting) write up on the woes of network administrators when everything goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PowerShell tricks: Splatting<\/a> Endpoint Isolation with the Windows Firewall<\/a> All systems down<\/a> In this new blog post series I’ll be looking at (normally a selection of 3) cool articles, news and other blog posts that I find interesting during the day. For this week we have PowerShell tricks, a detailed article on securing the Windows Firewall and an (old but very interesting) write up on the woes of network administrators when everything… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[487,269,299,248,288],"series":[],"class_list":["post-10895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cisco","tag-firewall","tag-network","tag-powershell","tag-windows-firewall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10898,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10895\/revisions\/10898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10895"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=10895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
New to me (always learning!) this trick allows you to populate the parameters for a PowerShell cmdlet in a table (makes for much neater formatting) to then pass into the cmdlet as a single object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Windows Firewall may seem like a bit of a beast from time to time but this article makes some great points on how to build out a set of secure policies that can apply to pretty much any environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A true disaster story – quite old (2003) but really worth a read to see what lessons you can take home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"