Lion Cipher Lab
10-minute drill: review a Windows laptop's security settings
- SOC Analyst / Blue Team
- Beginner
- ~10 min
- Free · no account required
Why it matters
An IT security specialist is the person who looks at a machine and says, quickly and correctly, what is protecting it and what is not. Most real compromises of laptops start with a protection that was quietly switched off or an everyday account that had far more power than it needed. Reading a short settings dump and ranking the fixes is the everyday version of the job, and a common interview exercise.
What you'll learn
- reading Windows firewall, Defender, account and BitLocker status
- least privilege for daily accounts
- spotting a disabled protection
- ranking endpoint fixes
Steps in this lab
- The artifact: five commands from one laptop
- What is on, what is off
- Accounts and disk
- Rank the fixes and say it out loud