A hacker posing as a potential customer has connected to your network and has discovered that a server running Windows Server has a configuration that a misconfiguration on a Windows Server that exposes the PowerShell prompt. The hacker executes a script to log valuable information about the server. Which vulnerabilities did the hacker exploit

Lack of ips

Insecure configuration

Explanation:

Lack of IPS

This is fully known as intrusion prevention softwares this works by enabling the firewall and protecting the computer system from unauthorised users and potential attackers and it prevents data from being stolen by identifying potential attacks. It monitors the network continuously, thereby looking for possible malicious threats and also capturing informations about these threats.

Insecure configuration

Obviously if you have power shell enabled then you would have a secure configuration. Attackers can easily access your system in the presence of this flaw.