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Security automation

Security automation

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Security automation

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- In this lesson, we're going to discuss security automation tools, which includes scripting like Bash, PowerShell, and Python, as well as cron jobs and schedule tasks. Now, to simplify our security automation, we can often use scripts written in different scripting languages like Bash, PowerShell, and Python. Now, a script is any computer program that automates the execution of tasks for a particular runtime or shell environment. Typically, scripts don't have the feature set of full fledged programs, but instead, they integrate with other programs and operating system components to achieve the different types of automation that you're trying to achieve. Now, the first scripting language we're going to discuss is Bash. Bash Scripting is a must-have skill for any Linux system administration job because it lets you leverage Linux's existing tools to create Bash scripts. Essentially, any program tool, utility or system function that you can call at the command line, can also be invoked…

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