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Continuous Monitoring using PowerShell and Elastic

In this lab, you’ll practice and develop skills in Powershell, to perform monitoring of computer artifacts within a company network interacting with Elastic. When you’re finished, you’ll have the necessary skills and knowledge to create tailored monitoring activities.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Windows Log Analysis with PowerShell and Elastic

    In this challenge you will use PowerShell and Elastic to analyze windows event logs from the corporate network. You will then analyze remotely collected logs, to help create a continuous security monitoring capability.

  3. Challenge

    Log Data Import and Analysis

    In this challenge you will use PowerShell and Elastic to import custom log formats. You will then analyze the custom logs using the power of Elastic.

  4. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Tim Coakley is a Senior Security Solutions Architect for a large multi-national organisation and an author at PluralSight. Tim started a long and successful full-time career in Digital Forensics supporting the criminal justice system and law enforcement on a long list of criminal cases.

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